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Yahoo's AOL, Google deals still in the works
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| Microsoft may no longer be breathing down its neck, but Yahoo is still
| working on major deals with Google and Time Warner's AOL that could
| significantly alter the Internet pioneer.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9935667-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Microsoft may seek other deal to fight Google
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| Microsoft Corp could seek a variety of deals after walking away from Yahoo
| Inc, but few would be comprehensive enough to let it challenge Google Inc's
| domination of online advertising.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/pressReleasesMolt/idUSN0430872520080505
Microsoft is like a suppressive totalitarian regime. It was willing to destroy
one company merely to use it as a tool to destroy another. No wonder the EU
considers embargoing Microsoft (decision due by the beginning of June). Links
at the bottom.
Yahoo! Issues Statement in Response to Microsoft
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| Jerry Yang, co-founder and chief executive officer, Yahoo! Inc. added, "I am
| incredibly proud of the way our team has come together over the last three
| months. This process has underscored our unique and valuable strategic
| position. With the distraction of Microsoft's unsolicited proposal now behind
| us, we will be able to focus all of our energies on executing the most
| important transition in our history so that we can maximize our potential to
| the benefit of our shareholders, employees, partners and users."
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http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=308131
Microhoo dead? Microsoft and Yahoo part ways – for now
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| Yahoo has reportedly had an exodus of executives over the past few months,
| and you have to wonder if some of Yahoo’s engineers are also considering
| their options.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18036/1105/
Microsoft plus Yahoo: Is it really over?
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| With the Microsoft Corp. acquisition offer that buoyed its stock now a thing
| of the past, and a more intimate relationship with dominant rival Google Inc.
| on the horizon, Yahoo Inc. may face an uncertain future.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/microsoft-plus-yahoo-really-over/story.aspx?guid=%7BBF0D6F40-62C6-40A3-A6BD-1DABA228B189%7D&dist=msr_1
http://tinyurl.com/5r7fpy
Recent:
EU: Europarlement testing Ubuntu, OpenOffice and Firefox
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| The European Parliament's IT department is testing the use of GNU/Linux
| distribution Ubuntu, OpenOffice, Firefox and other Open Source applications,
| the British MEP James Nicholson explained last week in a letter to Italian
| MEP Marco Cappato.
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7565
MEPs Question Microsoft's Eligibility for Gov't Projects
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| The Commission, which has not responded yet, is allowed a few weeks to reply.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144591/meps_question_microsofts_eligibility_for_govt_projects.html
Is Microsoft Now Banned from EU Contracts?
http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=697&blogid=14
Euro MP thinks Microsoft should be banned from government contracts
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/10/member-eu-parliament-asks
Green MEP says Microsoft should be excluded from EU contract awarding procedure
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/106338/from/rss09
EC probes OOXML standards-setting process
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| A spokesman for the European Commissioner for Competition, Neelie Kroes, told
| The Register that regulators were continuing to scrutinise interoperability
| issues related to Microsoft’s products following complaints from the
| Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS) group.
|
| As part of that process, the EC formally contacted a number of national
| standards bodies, including the Norwegian Standards Institute (NSI),
| requesting more details about possible irregularities in the OOXML
| standardisation process.
|
| [...]
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| “It must be stressed that it is not the Commission's intention to influence
| the outcome of this process, but the Commission considers it essential to
| ensure that European competition law is not violated in the course of the
| standard setting process,” he said in an email to El Reg.
|
| In January the EC began formal anti-trust probes against Microsoft in two
| cases where it was alleged that the multinational firm had abused its strong
| market position. As part of the investigation into the first case, the
| Commission said that it would scrutinise OOXML on the grounds that the
| specification doesn't work with those of competitors.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/04/ooxml_ec_investigation_iso/
Related:
EU Commission Investigating Microsoft's MSOOXML Push
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| I hope they think to investigate the smear campaigns that seem to always
| happen to anyone on the other side from Microsoft. What happened to Peter
| Quinn was by no means unique.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080208151410252
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