Microsoft CEO says large deals "conceivable"
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| Microsoft Corp. sees mergers as a way to fill gaps or enter new
| markets, mostly via small deals, but larger deals are also
| "conceivable," Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Wednesday.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/070509/microsoft_mergers_1.html?.v=2
If you can't beat them, buy them. Or pay (bribe?) them to punish the rivals
(e.g. Novell, Corel). Oracle does this as well. On the other hand:
Microsoft opts to build, not buy, business software
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| "I've never been opposed to the idea of looking at players in the
| industry. We've looked, to be quite honest," Jeff Raikes, president
| of Microsoft's business division, said in an interview. "We just
| thought organic development would get us to the real solution faster."
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20070510:MTFH25913_2007-05-10_02-02-56_N09335242&type=comktNews&rpc=44
And look what happens...
Related:
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| Asked about these problems, Arno Edelmann, Microsoft's European business
| security product manager, told ZDNet UK on Thursday that the code itself
| has pieces missing.
| "Usually Microsoft doesn't develop products, we buy products. It's not a
| bad product, but bits and pieces are missing," said Edelmann.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39286351,00.htm
Microsoft shipped OneCare unfinished?
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| Since shipping in May, OneCare has failed industry tests and exposed
| users to attack because of a security flaw in the antivirus engine.
| The application also incorrectly flagged Gmail as a virus and in some
| cases quarantined or even deleted complete in-boxes when a single
| e-mail was laden with a virus.
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http://news.com.com/2061-10789_3-6168629.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
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