There is now a strong indication that Yahoo will remain independent and hopefully with a Web 2.0 logo. Their Google search outsourcing deal should have been closed back in March in order to avoid the whole Carl Icahn scenario. Loved this part of their agreement:
The agreement also requires Yahoo! to pay a termination fee if [...]
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Mission: Eggcomplished (Mac everywhere!)
In an address to students in a Hungarian university, a disgruntled student threw eggs at Steve Ballmer(, Microsoft CEO(link).
The funniest part was not the egg hurdling, but the most beautiful sight there is: A student carrying a white Macbook at a Microsoft led speech. I think that was the big insult of the day!
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thebetaguy: Microsoft Windows 7 Exclusive
Dev Corvin from the beta guy claims to have an exclusive on Windows 7:
In Windows 7, Microsoft will break from the Windows’ norm by breaking previous API compatibility, offering new API frameworks as a native solution, and providing support for legacy frameworks (COM, ATL, .NET Framework, etc) through monolithic libraries designed to provide the functionality [...]
Google Docs goes Offline….in a good way: What took so long?
The Google Docs team is finally announcing that their Office apps now works offline too with the help of Google Gears! This is not revolutionary since Zoho beat them to the punch but let’s face it: Google is bigger.
This is very bad news for Microsoft’s $16 billion/year office business considering it’s free(or $50 for [...]
Google Sky: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
Gotta to hand it to the geeks at Google. They don’t understand women any better than men everywhere. That is why their new Google Sky shows just that. Women are Venus and Men are Mars.
Brought to you by the same guys that think the moon is made of cheese. What is this? Cheese!
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Microsoft’s Greatest Hits: Top 5 internal e-mails
Seattle PI on Microsoft’s greatest internal email hits. One of my favorite quoutes is Jim Allchin’s 2004 comment:
I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.
More funny emails like this at Valleywag:
No one really believed we would ever ship[Vista].
Imaginary performance boosts
Brent Simmons:
I bet every software developer has seen this—release a new version, even one you know to be slower, and some people will thank you for the performance boost.
Perception is a bitch and people do buy into the numbers game. 1.14 > 1.1.3 thus faster.
I guess that’s why Microsoft doesn’t use numbers that much (2000, [...]
Microsoft To Play Nice With Open-Source?
The words Microsoft and Open Source usually leave a bad taste in my mouth after I say them in the same sentence. Hopefully that will change with Ray Ozzie’s new Microsoft pledge:
Microsoft is providing a covenant not to sue open source developers for development or non-commercial distribution of implementations of these protocols. These developers will [...]
Microsft makes Scoble Cry?
I am not sure what kind of product/research Microsoft could do to make me cry:
Scoble wrote on his blog:
While watching the demo I realized the way I look at the world was about to change. While listening to Wong I noticed a tear running down my face. It’s been a long while since Microsoft did [...]
Google Hijacks 404 Pages
After the whole Microsoft-Yahoo debacle I realized(as most people) how powerful Google really is and their insistency that they are still the small guys. A couple of years ago, maybe. Today that is not the case.
The latest shitstorm to hit Mountain View is regarding the Google Toolbar, which replaces 404 pages less than 512k [...]