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Memo To Ballmer: Microsoft Doesn't Control Its Own Destiny
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| Does that seem crazy? Yes. But what about the Zune? Microsoft messed around
| with hardware makers for years before belatedly deciding to take the DIY
| approach, which didn't thrill its PlaysForSure partners. Yet if Microsoft has
| confidence in its platforms, it needs to prove that the weak links in the
| Windows chain have been the partners and not Microsoft. It doesn't even need
| to sell a lot of whatever it builds, just enough to show how it should be
| done according to Microsoft. In the process, it may find out that it's been
| asking a lot -- perhaps too much -- of its partners.
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/memo_to_ballmer.html
Microsoft limbers up to fight for online future
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| Despite spending billions to catch up, Microsoft is still a poor third in
| online search. The on-off, on-off merger with Yahoo hasn’t helped Ballmer’s
| mood. He had made the case that Yahoo was critical to the future of
| Microsoft’s saggy online services. Now he has to make the case that it’s not.
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| Then there’s Vista, the latest incarnation of Microsoft’s world-beating
| Windows computer-operating system. Last year’s rollout was a bug-ridden
| disaster.
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http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article4406824.ece
Last week:
Microsoft should issue debt for a buyback--analyst
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| Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) should take on
| debt to repurchase stock as a way to revive its flagging share price, a
| financial analyst said in a new report issued on Tuesday.
|
| Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co analyst David Hilal called on the company to
| take advantage of its predictable cash flow and rock solid balance sheet to
| execute a leveraged buyback.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2225586020080722
Recent:
Eight Years of Wrongness
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| That performance record would be embarrassing enough on its own, but it comes
| in spite of going through an unprecedented amount of our cash on buybacks
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| (nearly $43 billion worth in just the past three fiscal years) and other
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| schemes that were supposed to drive the stock.
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| [...]
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| Some readers may be surprised that I was initially a Ballmer supporter.
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http://msftextrememakeover.blogspot.com/2008/06/eight-years-of-wrongness.html
Microsoft says to borrow money for Yahoo deal
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| Microsoft Corp said on Monday it may borrow money for the first time in its
| history to fund a portion of its $44.6 billion unsolicited offer for Yahoo
| Inc.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNews/idUSN0455692920080205
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