Microsoft's Ballmer having a 'great time'
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| [Ballmer:] We have competition from OpenOffice. We have competition from
| StarOffice. We're going to have competition from Google. We have
| competition from IBM. And competition is a very good thing for
| Google to give us, and for us to give Google.
|
| Q: I use Word, I use Excel. And I don't use half the features
| they've got. Have you reached a point where, sure, you can keep
| adding more features, but who needs them?
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http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2007-04-29-ballmer-ceo-forum-usat_N.htm?csp=N008
Yahoo! buys! ad! exchange!
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| Right Media runs an exchange for ad agencies to buy advertising inventory.
| It claims to offer a more transparent way for advertisers and publishers
| to deal with their ad inventory - because inventory is auctioned you can
| see who is paying for what. In February the company claimed to have
| traded 566 billion page impressions in the previous six months.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/30/yahoo_buys_right/
Microsoft remains with a miniscule market share and little hope for the
future (another executive left just days ago).
Related:
News Analysis: Microsoft General Counsel on DoubleClick and Antitrust
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| This raises a very important question - why didn't Microsoft match Google's
| $3.1 billion offer. Smith would not comment on this, but I can report from
| very good sources that in fact the company did offer to match it, and was
| willing to pay even more to insure that Google did not corner the online ad
| market. But for whatever reasons, the private equity firm that owned the
| majority of DoubleClick's shares decided to go with Google.
|
| [...]
|
| I asked Smith about the irony of Microsoft asking the government to
| support it on antitrust. His response was interesting.
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http://battellemedia.com/archives/003561.php
Yet another Microsoft search exec calls it quits
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| In March, Blake Irving, the Corporate VP in charge of the Windows
| Live platform, announced his plans to leave Microsoft, effective
| this summer. Payne announced his resignation from Microsoft shortly
| after Irving made his announcement.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=407
Microsoft Continues to Lose Online Popularity
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| This week's Emarketer and Comscore reports drive home Microsoft's
| continuing fall from online
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070326/30668_id.html?.v=1
Microsoft Windows Live VP to resign
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| Blake Irving, a Corporate Vice President in Microsoft's Windows
| Live Platform group, is resigning his post, according to sources
| close to the company.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=296
Microsoft Search Leader To Leave Company
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| The Microsoft Corp. vice president who led the company's push into
| Internet search is leaving the software giant as the effort he
| helped launch loses ground against lead competitor Google Inc.
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http://online.wsj.com/preview_login.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB117329976478329930.html%3Fmod%3Dyahoo_hs%26ru%3Dyahoo
http://tinyurl.com/2jran7
Google manager: Google Apps replaced Microsoft Office at 100,000 businesses
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| Google's newly released online productivity suite Google Apps has
| already replaced Microsoft Office at more than 100,000 small to
| medium enterprises and has been deployed at two of the largest
| companies in the world, according to the search leader's
| enterprise product boss.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/9889/53/
100,000,000 OpenOffice.org fans can't be wrong
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| Simon's official response explained the business rationale behind
| offering support for OpenOffice.org: "OpenOffice.org has becomep
| henomenally successful, Sun alone has shipped more than 70 million
| copies of OpenOffice.org 2.0," he said. "Out there, there
| are maybe 100 million copies of OpenOffice.org. It would be
| senseless to ignore that opportunity."
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2006/11/100000000_openo.html
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