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Microsoft & Blockbuster: Deal Failure Is the New Success
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| In Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations,” the character of Miss Havisham
| lives a life stopped in time by her canceled wedding. Floating around her
| house in a tattered wedding dress, with a marital feast decomposing on the
| table, she pretends life never changed.
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| Miss Havisham may well be the model for companies that launched quixotic,
| failed bids to take over rivals. The executives of those companies–-Microsoft
| Corp. and Blockbuster Inc.-–have, in the wake of their disappointment,
| painted a picture of their future in which they gained all the advantages of
| an acquisition without actually doing one.
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http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2008/08/11/microsoft-and-blockbuster-deal-failure-is-the-new-success/
Recent:
Microsoft Needs Its Mojo Back
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| Somewhere in the Silicon Valley, there's a Doctor Evil holding a test tube
| full of Microsoft Mojo. Unlike the golden age of the 1990s, Microsoft isn't
| generating excitement anymore. Sure, people still care what Microsoft does,
| but lately it's more like the industry knows the company is headed for a fall
| and is just rubbernecking to see the inevitable result.
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| Problems are arriving on all fronts. Vista uptake in the enterprise just
| isn't happening; it's likely that many Vista licenses sold there are being
| downgraded to XP. Microsoft's plan to combine search forces with Yahoo hardly
| matters; at this point the both of them are plummeting against Google, which
| has nearly 70% share. The Zune music player is a minor nuisance to Apple's
| iPod. Sony just announced price cuts that are likely to push Microsoft into
| another round of XBox cuts, just as they were starting to eke out a profit.
| (Microsoft has lost about $7 billion on XBox since 2002.)
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/microsofts_need.html
Microsoft To Sit Out FCC Testing Of White Space Prototype
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| Microsoft had previously submitted prototypes for white spaces testing
| alongside other companies at an FCC laboratory, but the devices had technical
| glitches.
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| The earliest possible use of the white spaces by consumers would be in early
| 2009.
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http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1762388/
Microsoft stock drops amid slumping sales
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| Microsoft Corp., whose Windows software dominates the personal-computer
| market, fell 6.2 percent Fridayin Nasdaq trading after sales slumped, casting
| doubt on whether PC demand can hold up in a slowing economy. The software
| maker reported a 24 percent drop in sales of Windows last quarter and
| forecast earnings that may miss analysts' estimates.
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| [...]
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| "The risk is that Linux gets a foothold and then affects their long-term
| revenue significantly."
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http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_9061263
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