The AP has a story on how the person behind Tellme feels about Microsoft, having been purchased by them last year.
After being assured that Tellme would be able to retain its Silicon Valley office, identity and quirky culture, McCue negotiated …
Walter Mossberg thinks so. He recently gave a talk in Princeton, NJ where I live (except in the winter). I’m away so I missed the talk but there’s a report of it in the local newspaper:
Prominent technology journalist Walt Mossberg came to Princeton University on Wednesday bearing a message of the future: The Internet, for […]
Bill Gates seemed to draw on personal experience a few years ago when he pointed out one of the biggest risks of modern communications.
I suppose that by now most of us are reluctantly accepting the fact that what passes for service these days is pretty poor. I have already commented on the level of tech support at major companies. It isn’t just the outsourcing to script readers in faraway lands, however. Some companies don’t seem to have any […]
I’ve posted some photos from the Heroes Happen Here launch event to my SuperSite blog!
Yahoo Inc.’s biggest shareholders may not demand that Microsoft raise its $44.6 billion takeover offer because there is more to lose from a decline in their holdings of the buyer, Friedman Billings Ramsey Group Inc. said.Eighteen of Yahoo’s top 25 outside holders own even more Microsoft stock, FBR analysts including David Hilal said in a research note Wednesday.
Microsoft this week is giving a sneak peek at new Live services and platform development tools it plans to introduce at the company’s MIX08 Web developers conference next week.We’ve got some cool new applications and APIs were unveiling at MIX08, David Treadwell, corporate vice president of Microsofts Live Platform Services group, said in a blog post Wednesday evening.
Microsoft’s big bet on the online social network Facebook isn’t stopping Chairman Bill Gates from promoting other popular Internet hangouts.Gates is helping out LinkedIn’s online professional network by setting up a profile on the service and posing a question to help draw more attention to a makeover of the Web site’s front page.
Even some of Microsoft’s top officials struggled to make Windows Vista work smoothly when it was released, according to internal e-mails released Wednesday.To read the unsealed Microsoft e-mails, see goto.seattlepi.com/r1289The messages, unsealed in a lawsuit against the company, show that Vista’s early problems with hardware and software compatibility affected more than just average PC users.
And that will be great news for the 17 people who buy Windows that way each year. Microsoft announced yesterday that it will be cutting the price of the retail boxed versions of Windows Vista Home Premium and Ultimate by 20 to 48 percent. (They don’t actually specify what the new prices are, however.