Give Microsoft's regards to codename 'Broadway'
The March edition of my free Microsoft Codetracker is done and ready for download. This month includes "Broadway," among other new Microsoft codenames.
The March edition of my free Microsoft Codetracker is done and ready for download. This month includes "Broadway," among other new Microsoft codenames.
Microsoft isn't always the quickest in updating the executive bios on its corporate Web pages. But sometimes, former managers just disappear from the executive bio pages.
I'm seeing folks leap to the conclusion that Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer met with Adobe's CEO Shantanu Narayen to talk about Microsoft buying Adobe. Do you see this happening? I sure don't.
At the start of calendar 2011, there were reports that Microsoft was losing two of its key merger and acquisition specialists. But it turns out one of the two is sticking around, after all.
To those wondering why Microsoft has become increasingly cautious about acquisitions, here's another morsel for thought. Microsoft is shuttering its AdECN ad-exchange purchase.
Microsoft is discontinuing its Bing Cashback program -- via which the company paid consumers to use its Bing search engine to shop -- as of July 30.
The U.S. Department of Justice is expanding its review of the pending Microsoft-Yahoo search partnership the pair unveiled this summer.
Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie defended Microsoft's continued heavy investments in the online-systems arena, claiming the flowing trail of red ink from Microsoft's Online Systems Business (OSB) doesn't tell the whole story.
There are a couple of details about the Microsoft-Yahoo search partnership I found interesting, especially when comparing Yahoo's 8-K filing to the Yahoo-Microsoft costs slide that Microsoft erroneously included in a Financial Analyst Meeting slide deck last week.
Now that company officials finally have decided to talk about Windows' competition by name, Microsoft isn't letting up with its anti-Apple messaging.