WinInfo Short Takes: Week of May 19, 2008
An often irreverent look at some of the week's other news, including OLPC and Windows XP, the XP SP3 constant reboot issue, Yahoo! vs. Icahn, 10 million Xbox 360s in North America, April video game stats, Microsoft innovation, CBS and CNET, and much more
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Icahn and I Will: Investor Launches Yahoo! Proxy Battle
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn confirmed that he will use the muscle behind his 59 million share stake in Yahoo! to trigger a proxy battle aimed at displacing the company's board of directors with one that is more amenable to a sale to Microsoft. Icahn
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Yahoo! May Face a Proxy Battle After All
While Microsoft declined to confront Yahoo!'s board of directors with a proxy battle, billionaire investor Carl Icahn is preparing to do just that. And if the activist shareholder is successful in removing Yahoo!'s current board, those close to Mr. Icahn
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Microsoft Opens Up the Heavens
Microsoft on Tuesday released an inspiring new tool for investigating space using imagery from the best ground- and space-based observatories around the world. Dubbed WorldWide Telescope, this new tool is free and combines Web services with a local
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Jeff Raikes to Head Gates Foundation
Once seen as a potential successor to Bill Gates at Microsoft, Jeff Raikes will now follow the billionaire philanthropist to the Gates Foundation instead. Yesterday, the Gates Foundation announced that outgoing Microsoft president Jeff Raikes will become
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Pricing and Licensing for Windows Essential Server Solutions
Microsoft announces the release of Windows Essential Business Server 2008 release candidate 0 (RC0) and the pending release of Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2008 RC0. It will also release pricing and licensing details for the products.
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Microsoft Appeals EU Fine
On Saturday, Microsoft revealed that it has filed an appeal with the European Union's Court of First Instance in Luxembourg seeking to eliminate a $1.3 billion fine that was imposed on February 27, 2008. The European Commission (EC) fined the company for
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Windows Live Services Coming to Blackberry
On Monday, Microsoft and Research in Motion (RIM) announced that the two companies will collaborate to bring popular Windows Live services to RIM's popular Blackberry smart phone devices. The first two services to make the transition to the Blackberry
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Microsoft Lowers XP Price for ULCPCs
According to reports, Microsoft has lowered the price of Windows XP for PC makers that wish to bundle the aging OS with a new generation of low-performance and low-cost PCs which are sometimes referred to as Ultra-Low-Cost PCs, or ULCPCs. But there's a
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WinInfo Short Takes: Week of May 12, 2008
An often irreverent look at some of the week's other news, including the Microsoft/Facebook rumors, Microsoft's board nominees head home, Office 2007 SP1, Best Buy (and Steph) in Europe, Zune copy protection silliness, iPhone in Italy, and much, much more
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About Face: Microsoft Sends Feelers to Facebook
With the Yahoo! debacle behind it, Microsoft has turned, as expected, to smaller social networking sites for possible acquisition. First up, according to a report today in "The Wall Street Journal" is Facebook. Though neither company will comment on any
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Microsoft Issues Significant Zune Software Update
With no warning whatsoever, Microsoft on Tuesday released a major update to its Zune 2 platform, providing new versions of its PC-based software, device-based firmware, online music and video store, and social networking service. The update addresses a
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Windows XP SP3 Returns to the Web
On Tuesday, Microsoft re-released Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) to Windows Update and via the Microsoft Download Center, a week after temporarily pulling the update due to a compatibility issue with Microsoft Dynamics RMS. A similar compatibility issue
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Microsoft Issues Significant Zune Software Update
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Google Wants Open Access Pledge from Verizon
Worried that Verizon's recent winning $4.7 billion bid on a band of wireless spectrum will not be as open as promised, Google has filed a petition with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC had previously required that any
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Hands on with the Celio REDFLY
Paul has been able to spend some time with this mobile device over the past few weeks and let's you know what he thinks of it.
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Now What? Microsoft, Yahoo! Face Uncertain Futures
With the Microsoft-Yahoo! mega-merger now firmly in what-coulda-been territory, both companies face an uncertain future in the emerging market for cloud computing. Microsoft, infamously, has bungled its migration from traditionally delivered software to
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Shock and Awe: Microsoft Dumps Yahoo!
This weekend, Microsoft abruptly ended its takeover bid for ailing online giant Yahoo! after failing to come to terms on the value of the transaction. In a letter to Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer raised his company's bid for Yahoo! by
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