[Related to the previous post]
Microsoft: Google gets undue credit for ad conversions
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| So said Brian McAndrews, senior vice president of Microsoft's Advertiser
| Publisher Solutions Group during a panel discussion at the Web 2.0 Summit in
| San Francisco Thursday.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071019/tc_infoworld/92730
Google RE^H^H^H^HDS your mail, says Abusive Lizard in a suit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnw4o3ReOl8
Google Execs Really Do Hate Evil
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| At the last day of the Web 2.0 Summit, attendees learned that having their
| genome mapped will set them back US$300,000 and that Google Inc.'s founders
| really stress over the prevention and extermination of evil.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20071021/tc_pcworld/138707
So they say...
Related:
MSN Still Going Nowhere Fast
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| It is worth noting that Microsoft still hasn't made any headway
| in the search-and-portal game and, in fact, is falling farther and
| farther behind. As a result, it is not surprising that Steve Ballmer
| is now warning media companies that Google is the Evil Empire --
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| because no other competitive tactic has worked.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/061116/20767_id.html?.v=1
Google reads your email, shocker - Steve Ballmer claims
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/08/google-reads-email-shokka
Google-Doubleclick deal likely to win OK - experts
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| Mark Kovner, an antitrust lawyer with Kirkland & Ellis, said the Federal
| Trade Commission was not inclined to block vertical mergers, which are
| usually the combination of two companies producing different goods or
| services for the same product.
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http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=media&storyID=nN09237242
Microsoft trying to derail Google/DoubleClick deal by lobbying congress
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| Microsoft has hired lobbying firm Patton Boggs LLC to do work on "competitive
| issues surrounding Google/DoubleClick [sic] merger."
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070816-microsoft-spends-40000-to-lobby-congress-about-googledoubleclick-merger.html
Tech Companies Paid Lobbyist $200,000
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| Over 60 companies and trade associations, including Microsoft Corp. and Apple
| Inc., have formed the Coalition for Patent Fairness, which paid Patton Boggs
| to lobby Congress in support of patent reform legislation, according to the
| form posted online Aug. 9 by the Senate's public records office.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070830/tech_companies_lobbying.html?.v=1
Does Google Have Another Move in Vista Chess Game?
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| Google's protests over the way desktop search is handled in Microsoft's
| Vista OS have so far fallen on deaf ears. A U.S. district judge denied
| Google's request to extend Microsoft's antitrust agreement with federal
| and state governments, essentially saying the matter was none of
| Google's business. The judge suggested that Google appeal to DoJ,
| which has shown no sympathy for the search giant.
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http://technewsworld.com/story/ekZ8GFQxbGgXwd/Does-Google-Have-Another-Move-in-Vista-Chess-Game.xhtml
Microsoft Finds Legal Defender in Justice Dept.
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| Nearly a decade after the government began its landmark effort to break
| up Microsoft, the Bush administration has sharply changed course by
| repeatedly defending the company both in the United States and abroad
| against accusations of anticompetitive conduct, including the recent
| rejection of a complaint by Google.
|
| [...]
|
| In the most striking recent example of the policy shift, the top
| antitrust official at the Justice Department last month urged state
| prosecutors to reject a confidential antitrust complaint filed by
| Google that is tied to a consent decree that monitors Microsoft's
| behavior. Google has accused Microsoft of designing its latest
| operating system, Vista, to discourage the use of Google's desktop
| search program, lawyers involved in the case said.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/business/10microsoft.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
Software rivals say Microsoft's Vista illegal in Europe
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| Software manufacturers, citing 2004 European Commission finding,
| contend the operating system violates server laws in Europe.
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http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/26/news/international/bc.vista.microsoft.eu.reut/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote
US politicians go to bat for Microsoft
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/26/microsoft_eu_political_lobbying/
Report Says Nonprofits Sold Influence to Abramoff
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| E-mails released by the committee show that Abramoff, often
| with the knowledge of the groups' leaders, exploited the tax-exempt
| status and leveraged the stature of the organizations to build
| support among conservatives for legislation or government action
| sought by clients including Microsoft Corp., mutual fund company
| DH2 Inc., Primedia Inc.'s Channel One Network, and Brown-Forman,
| maker of Jack Daniel's whiskey.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/12/AR2006101200889.html
http://tinyurl.com/y2rbpu
Politicians in Microsoft's Pocket
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| Continuing on the theme of which politicians are receiving money from
| who. Here is a list of candidates who took money from MSFT.
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http://www.fonz.net/blog/archives/2007/06/04/politicians-in-microsofts-pocket/
Desperate Acts (of Microsoft)
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| Microsoft is expected to spend $650 million next year to let the world
| know it has a shiny new search service and Web advertising network.
| That money is more than double the amount Microsoft will spend rolling
| out Vista, the new operating system that will contribute vastly more to
| its revenues.
|
| Microsoft's two-year catch-up effort in search has yielded only
| middling results. This year it dropped from 11% to 9% of all searches.
| Google handled 61% of the 204 billion searches worldwide in the past1
| 2 months.
|
| "We're late to the game. We admit it," confesses a full-page Microsoft
| ad in national papers, begging the world to try out its new Live
| search service. You almost want to hand Chief Executive Steven Ballmer
| a cup of cocoa.
|
| [...]
|
| Think of this fight as determining a few decabillion dollars of market
| value circa 2010. The current figures are $147 billion for Google and $284
| billion for Microsoft.
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http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1127/044a_print.html
Ozzie: Vista, Office must adapt to Web era
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| Ozzie said that the transition to integrate online services into Microsoft
| products has been a challenge but that changes within the company are
| happening.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6133895.html
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