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[News] [Rival] Google is Ballmer/Microsoft's "Last Breath"

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Google is Ballmer/Microsoft's "Last Breath"
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:47:58 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Freelance
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Microsoft CEO says catching Google is goal

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| Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer pledged on Thursday he will gain 
| share against Google Inc  in online advertising and Web searching even if it 
| is in his "last breath" at the company.  
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http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSN0653295920080306

They don't compete. They just try to /destroy/ rivals. Totality at its finest.

"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."
                
                                        --Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO


Recent:

Microsoft's Last Big Beat: Internet Domination or Death

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| What can $44.6B USD mean? Well, for Microsoft (MSFT) it may mean the cost of 
| survival. 
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/63876-microsoft-s-last-big-beat-internet-domination-or-death?source=yahoo

(From the same guy who accepted and received a Microsoft bribe, Michael
Arrington, so he's not biased at all.)


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


Microsoft's DreamSpark – What a Giveaway

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| The rest of the $44.6bn (£22.3bn) deal would be financed with an undisclosed 
| amount of credit. 
| 
| What that means is that it must squeeze as much money as it can from its 
| operations to fund that debt and still pay dividends to shareholders, who 
| will be looking for some payback from the Yahoo takeover. Giving away 
| software is the last thing it would want to do in these circumstances, and 
| the DreamSpark announcement shows just how worried it is about the future.    
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/microsofts-dreamspark-%E2%80%93-what-giveaway


Debt in Disguise

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| The purpose of securitization is to make the credit rating of the company 
| practically irrelevant in a financing, so that even in a bankruptcy the 
| receivables cash flow will be protected....  
| 
| The rating agencies also rely greatly on legal constructs that say the 
| payment stream to investors will not be hindered. For instance, the transfer 
| of receivables to the SPE must be a "true sale." That is, the seller must not 
| retain too much of the reward or the risk coming from the asset, says Robert 
| Hahn, a partner with Hunton & Williams LLP. In addition, the SPE has to 
| be "nonrecourse" — in other words, the company's creditors must not have 
| claim to the assets of the SPE if the originating company goes bankrupt.      
| 
| "Securitization divorces the creditworthiness of the [company] from the 
| credit of the pool," says Mark Spradling, a partner with Vinson & Elkings 
| LLP. "True sale and nonconsolidation are part of that separation."  
| 
| But the opinion that legal control of receivables has passed to a third party 
| has not been litigated in the bankruptcy courts.... 
| 
| Tapping the capital markets without a lending bank in between means that even 
| non-investment-grade companies can finance at near what triple-A companies 
| pay.  
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http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/10013957/c_10203909?f=home_todayinfinance&x=1


Feeling the heat at Microsoft

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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest 
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask 
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?  
| 
| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have 
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc

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