Entries Tagged as 'microsoft'
Breakfast Links: UK, Strange Collections & Microsoft XP
I don’t know why, but every time I post about the UK’s love of spying on its townfolk, I think that’s going to be the last one. So when the next one comes around, I’m shocked again. And again. And again. Well, now, enter Budgens, a London supermarket chain who is - in secret - [...]
Categories: breakfast links · microsoft · odd
Microsoft Mesh… Maybe?
During those dark days when my blog was down Microsoft launched the tech preview of their Live Mesh platform. Much blogging ensued. Scott said, and to a pretty good point I agree, that Mesh embodied everything that is wrong with Microsoft. By taking an idea, and building and building and building it into some overly [...]
Categories: microsoft · web service
The end of Microsoft & Yahoo?
Well the internets were atwitter with talk of Microsoft and Yahoo officially breaking up this weekend. I believe that this is for the best for both companies, although I was definitely surprised. I’d been reading all along how it was more or less a done deal and not knowing anyone on the inside, I was [...]
Microsoft’s Brand Problem
I was checking out this cnet piece on Microsoft’s brand problem - in some crazy brand ranking list, Microsoft was at #59 - down from #11 in 2004. That’s a pretty hefty drop. I’m not really sure how they pulled the list of companies they ranked, but Apple isn’t in the list so you can’t [...]
Working for the big boys
I was thinking about the big tech companies… mostly the ones I kinda watch - so Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple. Recently it seems like there’s been a lot of shifts in the power dynamics of all of these places and with that shift in power came shifts in hiring patterns - at least as [...]
A few thoughts on Microsoft
Nothing coherent here, just a couple of random thoughts I had about Microsoft.
The first thing is the good news that Microsoft will be making real standards compliance the default mode for the forthcoming IE8. This is an about face from their previous stance where the default mode would be to render the same way [...]
Microsoft keeps on going
The thing that’s dangerous about Microsoft these days is that they’re like the Energizer Bunny. Since nearly any market they get into requires expenditures that are teeny compared to their business of OS and Office Suite, they can lose as much money as they want without it really affecting their bottom line (see Zune). Because [...]
Yahoo and AOL?
So the internets are reporting that Yahoo is reviving its AOL merger talks to try and stave off the Microsoft takeover. Turns out the blogoweb hates this. Personally, I think it’s fairly unlikely to happen just like last time, although perhaps not, given that Time Warner’s thinking about splitting AOL in two and IPO’ing them [...]
Some thoughts on Microsoft/Yahoo
Nothings changed. It was and remains a dumb idea and will sink both companies if it happens. Well you know, not sink, go out of business, but sink, make noticeably worse than they are now. Decreasing shareholder value. I did come across SAR’s nice review of more reasons (than my own “two giant, directionless bureaucracies [...]
Microsoft and Yahoo
So, I still think a Microsoft/Yahoo merger would be a mistake for both companies. This is reaffirmed by the already contentious relationship they have - Kara Swisher is reporting that Microsoft went public with this to force Yahoo’s hand.
“I woke up this morning and couldn’t believe that they did it,†said one exec. “They had [...]
