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Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff Calls Microsoft 'Alley Thugs'
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/Salesforces-Marc-Benioff-Calls-Microsoft-Alley-Thugs-563417/
Microsoft's Salesforce.com Lawsuit Overshadows Hotmail Update
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Windows/Microsofts-Salesforce-Lawsuit-Overshadows-Hotmail-Update-171585/
Microsoft And Salesforce.Com In A Patent Infringement Case
http://www.dtechit.co.uk/wordpress/wordpress/?p=1223
Over lawsuit, Salesforce CEO calls Microsoft 'patent trolls'
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| Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff didn't hold
| much back Thursday when, during the
| company's Q1 FY2011 earnings call, someone
| asked him about Microsoft's new lawsuit
| against the cloud-computing leader. He went
| right out and said it, calling Microsoft
| "patent trolls."
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http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/206739.asp
Is Microsoft A Patent Troll?
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| So at least by the elements of that
| definition, Microsoft doesn't meet the
| patent troll definition at all. The patents
| that Microsoft is litigating aren't ones
| that it has purchased, but ones that were
| filed based on the research of their own
| employees. Some of those patents are ones
| that are already being used in Microsoft
| products, and others are at at least
| potentially usable in future products. For
| the time being, patent royalties are a
| small part of Microsoft's revenues. And
| finally, Microsoft is going after companies
| that are in its own technology back yard.
|
| Far from being a patent troller themselves,
| Microsoft has been a patent-troll victim,
| losing several lawsuits that have cost
| hundreds of millions of dollars. Still,
| there's no doubt that Microsoft has
| increasingly gone after competitors that it
| believes are using its patented ideas. Just
| last month, phone-maker HTC cut a deal to
| license patents that Microsoft said were
| being used by HTC handsets.
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2010/05/is_microsoft_a.html
Microsoft's Ballmer: 'Nothing Free About Android'
http://www.crn.com/software/225200013
Will Google Buy Salesforce Next?
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/197061/will_google_buy_salesforce_next.html
Recent:
The end of Microsoft. A door opens to a new cloud.
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| I have been waiting for something
| spectacular to happen any day. And itâs not
| the explosion of another volcano in
| Iceland, but it will be a global event with
| far reaching ramifications that will be as
| well known. Appleâs market capitalization
| is about to be worth more than Microsoft's.
| That is quite a change from a decade ago.
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http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/04/29/the-end-of-microsoft-a-door-opens-to-a-new-cloud/
Microsoft--down but by no means out
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| After all, this is the company that went
| from calling open-source software "un-
| American" to embracing it on a large scale.
| It's also the company that killed Blackbird
| when it proved to be a dead-end and
| recently RIP'd its Courier tablet.
|
| Microsoft is also the company that has
| dumped several iterations of its mobile
| Windows to experiment with two iterations
| of a new mobile strategy: Kin and Windows
| Phone 7. The two will likely converge over
| time, but Microsoft is placing multiple
| bets.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-20004395-16.html
I Sense a Weakness in the Force
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| All the OEMs have a toe in the water of
| GNU/Linux. That is why M$ cannot raise its
| prices even though they have spent hundreds
| of millions promoting up-selling and
| killing the netbook. The netbook is poised
| to re-emerge with ARM and unencumbered by
| that other OS. Another reason why M$ cannot
| raise prices is because hundreds of
| millions of XP machines are still in use.
| Owners will undergo hundreds of dollars
| each to replace these machines. $150 or so
| for that other OS would be conspicuous
| compared to other options.
|
| The monopoly is a house of cards about to
| crash down. It is crumbling slowly at the
| moment but any shift in its foundations
| will cause an avalanche. This is over and
| above the cloud-immobility issue. There is
| no monopoly in the cloud. People know what
| happened with M$ having a desktop monopoly.
| They will not be fooled again.
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http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/05/08/i-sense-a-weakness-in-the-force/
The Next Battle Against Microsoft
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| Recently I was with Craig Mundie, an
| executive at Microsoft, and I said: "Craig,
| how many servers and data centers do you
| think that our customers would need to set
| up if we didn't exist as a company?" I was
| talking about doing just basic customer
| information or building complex apps. He
| said: "More than 100,000."
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http://www.forbes.com/2010/05/05/benioff-microsoft-facebook-intelligent-technology-salesforce.html?boxes=Homepagechannels
Benioff on Microsoft Mobile: 'They're Nowhere'
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| Seattle Times Biz-Tech reporter Sharon Chan
| recently caught Salesforce.com CEO Marc
| Benioffâs session and found him ârolling with
| a Microsoft (News - Alert) rant.â
|
| As usual, Benioff had opinions and wasnât shy
| about expressing them. âIn the world of
| mobile, which is only behind socialâ in
| importance, Benioff said, Microsoft âare
| nowhere.â
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http://www.tmcnet.com/channels/sales-software/articles/77634-benioff-microsoft-mobile-theyre-nowhere.htm
Marc Benioff's mantra: Anything but Microsoft
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| I think Microsoft is still a dinosaur. More than ever, it tries to hold onto
| its monopolistic position around technology that they hold, whether it's SQL
| Server, whether it's NT, whether it's Windows, whether it's Office--these are
| their cash cows they don't want slaughtered.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-9975019-80.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Marc Benioff taunts the awakened dinosaurs
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| Following is part of the exchange, where I asked Benioff for his thoughts on
| Microsoft. He has called Microsoft a dinosaur, incapable of innovation, and a
| monopolist.
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http://www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9895987-80.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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