Amidst all the reorganization to take place in Yahoo management under its energetic new CEO, Steve Ballmer has some spice coming up. Microsoft’s CEO is serving the same tales; a possibility of some deal with Yahoo, talk about eating his own words. The idea? Microsoft is desperate to team with Yahoo to stand as some competition to Google. No one knows what or how it turns out to be, but it definitely had Microsoft’s shares plunging down, the lowest in a decade. Let’s see if this brings up the same old dogfights.
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A Snow Leopard has come to be associated with Apple’s coming OS but little did we know that an image of the cat on Live.com would make everyone think of the impossible. Many might consider this to be a sign that Microsoft is keen at alluring Apple for some handshake, but that’s just so inevitable. Primarily because I have never seen anything Apple being co-branded and it may not happen for years to come. No matter where and what the entire websphere has to say of this coincidence, I will simply enjoy this background image that looks pretty cool.
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Microsoft Corporation hired Walmart veteran, David Porter a its VP of retail stores and almost immediately disclosed plans of opening its retails stores. This appears yet another we secretly admire Apple’s ways, as Apple itself has created a lot of awareness amongst consumers with its stores. Microsoft badly needs to improve its own brand amongst the masses, especially after what it suffered at the hands of Vista. In a press release, Microsoft’s COO Kevin Turner stated:
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Microsoft has knifed its Zune team’s software and hardware divisions, part of it going under leadership of Enrique Rodriguez , VP Microsoft’s Mediaroom and TV businesses and the hardware section to report to Tom Gibbons. Gibbons heads design efforts of Windows Mobile unit. The division can be traced back when Microsoft announced its massive layoffs and the poor sales of Zune during the holidays. We aren’t sure about how many of those layoffs hit Zune but Microsoft hasn’t really been successful with its device. Rodriguez did point out a few things that need to be done and generating revenue was one of them. Apart from that, the idea is most probably to have more people focus on the entertainment side, he stated:
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I had always believed; no matter what happens talks about Microsoft buying/merging with Yahoo would always stay in the loop. I thought Jerry’s departure as Yahoo’s CEO would strike the final blow and put an end t it when Justin Post, analyst from Merrill Lynch/Bank of America has suggestions. He is of the opinion that the two should merge and Yahoo be let to have the controlling stake. Hasn’t this been made clear that Yahoo isn’t interested in being divided in bits and pieces? Post has some points that appear fairly good when reading:
- Control 30 percent of the U.S. search market and the largest display-ad platform.
- Generate about $9 billion in 2010 revenue (versus Google’s $16 billion).
- Achieve expense reductions of $1.4 billion (half of Microsoft’s search related expenses could be eliminated).
- Generate operating margins of about 20 percent.
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Microsoft is pretty serious about giving the cloud service an addition from its armory; its own web based service for the phones (signs that Windows Mobile is yet to see its last). The service enables users to share and store data from their cell phones, if their phone run Window Mobile 6 OS (or the much talked about 6.5). The news of this had been confirmed when Microsoft’s My Phone site went online temporarily and the service would provide users with up to a free 200 MB capacity. However files that are synced beyond that limit will be removed.
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He must have done a lot when it comes to evolving computers but little did we know that he could the same with freeing some bugs on an elite audience. Bill Gates on Wednesday drew attention of the elites towards malaria victims as he released mosquitoes upon them at the TED. The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation assured to provide $168.7 million to help develop vaccination for malaria. Gates supported his action stating:
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The IE continues to fall back further in the browser share market as it dropped to 67.55%. Others added to their percentages as Firefox’s rose to 21.5% and Safari climbing over at 8.30% and Chrome touching 1.12% share. Microsoft must be a bit worried and it rolled out IE8’s first release candidate to push that share up. However there have been issues with it already and only time will tell how effective the latest version is going to be. Anyone who would like to become Nostradamus and predict what the browser market be in the next six months?
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