What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft?
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| Today I want to ponder the question: what if Microsoft, not Google, had
| created Gmail? What would be the differences in that web mail client for
| users today? What if we apply some of the same design rules that brought us
| Hotmail, for instance?
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http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-11-20-n35.html
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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
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
Why Yahoo! Can't Fix Microsoft
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| So why wouldn't buying Yahoo! help Microsoft? For starters, Microsoft
| is too slow and too cautious to keep up. While Microsoft howled after
| Google snapped up online advertising specialist DoubleClick last month
| for $3.1 billion, that's just the latest opportunity Microsoft has
| missed. In 2005, Google beat out Microsoft to buy a stake in AOL.
| And while Microsoft carped after the DoubleClick deal, Yahoo! rolled
| up its sleeves and snapped up the 80% of Right Media it didn't
| already own.
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http://www.forbes.com/technology/2007/05/04/yahoo-microsoft-google-tech-cx_bc_rr_0504microsoftyahoo2.html?partner=rss
http://tinyurl.com/2td547
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
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.
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| 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
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