Ballmer: Caught between a software rock and a services hard place
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| Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is not one to make concessions. He has laughed
| about Linux’s prospects. He has pooh-poohed the iPhone. He has called Google
| bloated.
|
| [...]
|
| If you were Ballmer, what would you do, at this point, to make sure not to
| cannibalize your existing software business while moving to more of a
| services-focused one?
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=567
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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
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| Lucovsky said Ballmer threw a chair across the room and shouted:
| "Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury
| that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to
| fucking kill Google."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballmer
Ouch: Goodbye Microsoft; Hello, Google
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| Google continues to poach from Microsoft -- that's not really news.
| But it's relatively rare to see Microsoft employees using their
| Microsoft-sponsored TechNet blog space to diss Microsoft on the way
| out the door.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=380
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
Microsoft's Futile Attempt at Search Engines
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| An article in Seattle-Post Intelligencer displays a graph showing the
| growth and number of queries of Google and Microsoft, as well as Yahoo.
| The most apparent conclusion that can be drawn from this picture is
| that Microsoft can not start a battle with Google until it defeats
| Yahoo first. Bill Gates? company trails Yahoo by nearly a billion
| queries. Yahoo has also shown growth over the past couple of years,
| while MSN/Live search has stagnated and floundered under 700 million
| queries.
|
| Microsoft's inability to gain a significant market share, despite a
| growth in the market of over 3 billion queries in the past two years,
| just typifies how the company has shown little inability to shoo
| away the gnat that has become a real nuisance in Google.
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http://blog.fastcompany.com/archives/2007/03/07/microsofts_futile_attempt_at_search_engines.html?partner=rss
Analysts cynical of Microsoft-Yahoo deal
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| David Hallerman, a senior analyst at the research group eMarketer,
| said he saw many cultural problems and few strategic benefits with
| a Microsoft-Yahoo combination.
|
| "There's too much overlap between Microsoft and Yahoo, and to try to
| merge the company cultures of two large companies like that in
| general is hard," Hallerman said.
|
| [...]
|
| Industry analyst Matt Rosoff with Directions on Microsoft in Kirkland,
| Wash., said the huge takeover was unlikely, noting that Yahoo would
| duplicate services Microsoft's MSN already provides, such as instant
| messaging and e-mail.
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http://www.9news.com/money/article.aspx?storyid=69371
Yahoo rejects Microsoft search offer
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| Yahoo CEO Terry Semel has revealed he recently rebuffed Microsoft's
| attempt to bag a stake in the company.
|
| Although the Yahoo boss didn't confirm what form the speculated
| overtures took, he slapped down the idea Yahoo would be willing to
| let Microsoft take a stake in the company.
|
| According to a report in the Financial Times, Semel said: "Microsoft
| taking over Yahoo--that conversation has never come up."
|
| He added: "(We discussed) search, and Microsoft co-owning some of our
| search. I will not sell a piece of search--it is like selling your
| right arm while keeping your left; it does not make any sense."
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http://news.com.com/2061-10811_3-6071556.html?part=rss&tag=6071556&subj=news
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| The fight is on between the three internet search titans, after Yahoo's
| Terry Semel laid down the gauntlet to Microsoft saying the software
| giant's recently elevated ambitions in the search arena were a lost cause.
|
| "My impartial advice to Microsoft is that you have no chance. The
| search business has been formed," he said in an interview with the
| New Yorker's Ken Auletta."
|
| [...]
|
| "That crashing sound you hear, is a chair being thrown across an
| office in Redmond," said another (blogger).
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http://news.ft.com/cms/s/11eadcd4-e1a3-11da-bf4c-0000779e2340.html
Microsoft Still Needs Help Understanding Search
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| When a company resorts to bribery not once, but twice in an effort
| to get customers to try their product, you have to consider that
| maybe there's something wrong with the product itself.
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http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Search-Engine-News/Microsoft-Still-Needs-Help-Understanding-Search/
http://tinyurl.com/2r6vll
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