February 11, 2008 1:07 PM
Posted by: Bcournoyer
MicrosoftYahoo has told Microsoft to take its $44.6 billion takeover bid and go home, and now everyone and their mother is sounding off on the future of the two companies.
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February 10, 2008 11:52 AM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Collaboration software,
Google,
Microsoft,
SMB,
Software as a service (SaaS)Yahoo's board, convinced that Microsoft is lowballing, has reportedly nixed Microsoft's $44.6 billion buyout offer. The Wall Street Journal reported the news over the weekend.
Yahoo, despite its...
February 6, 2008 2:02 PM
Posted by: Bcournoyer
MicrosoftHardware and software compatibility isn't the only problem that Microsoft partners can expect when helping customers migrate to Windows Vista.
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February 4, 2008 10:43 AM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
MicrosoftIt’s a couple days earlier than our sources said, but Microsoft says both Vista SP1 and Windows 2008 have released to manufacturing as of Monday. In reality, however, both parts of the Windows...
February 1, 2008 11:32 AM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Microsoft,
Software as a service (SaaS)Microsoft finally made its move on Yahoo early Friday, offering north of $44 billion for the Internet portal pioneer.
This the day after board member and former Yahoo CEO Terry Semel hit the road...
January 29, 2008 3:17 PM
Posted by: Bcournoyer
Channel partner programs,
Microsoft,
Reseller blogsThe Microsoft Partner Program Web site gets skewered today by John Powers, CEO of independent software vendor Digipede.
On his blog,
January 28, 2008 8:57 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Microsoft,
Server virtualization,
Virtualization Monday was a big day in virtualization.
First, VMware said it doubled its profits and boosted revenue by 80% in its fourth quarter. Wall Street rewarded it...
January 28, 2008 12:50 PM
Posted by: Bcournoyer
Microsoft,
Server virtualizationVMware is trying to drive a wedge between Microsoft and Citrix Systems, according to virtualization.info.
The site says it has obtained a memo that VMware sent to its sales channel last...
January 25, 2008 2:03 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Data storage management,
MicrosoftThe latest word on SQL Server 2008 is that final shipment is now on for Q3 2008 -- basically a slip of a quarter.
The company had said to expect the database in the first half of the year with a lot of noise to come out at the
Breaking news this afternoon has cast Microsoft's acquisition of Danger in a whole new light. 
