Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has once again said they are done with the talks of a merger. He addressed this question at the annual shareholder meeting today in Bellevue, Washington: “We are done with all acquisition discussions with Yahoo. I’ve said that a bunch of times. Somehow some people have gotten confused nonetheless,” he said in response to a question. One person in the hall at Bellevue’s Meydenbauer Center then applauded. Interesting, just last month The American Technology Research had indicated that it was “increasingly likely” Microsoft would make another bid for Yahoo at a “significantly lower” price.” Also at…
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Current Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang has announced today he is stepping down and returning to his former role as Chief Yahoo! The news ends an embattled tenure for the Yahoo co-founder, who took over as CEO in June 2007, replacing then CEO Terry Semel. Now the big question is what does this mean for the still lingering merger/partnership/take-over with Yahoo and partnership with Microsoft. Yahoo is not doing so well, the stock has already lost nearly 2/3 (closed today @ $10.63 per share) of it value since the take-over was announced. Back on February 1st Yahoo! stock shot up to…
A quick background on the Vista Capable suit against Microsoft. The suit claims that the labeling of computers as “Windows Vista Capable” misled consumers because many of the machines weren’t powerful enough to run all of Vista’s features, such as the Aero user interface. The scope of the class-action portion of the suit is if the “Vista Capable” labels artificially created demand for PCs in late 2006 during the holiday-shopping season. As more emails were unsealed this week as part of the class-action Vista Capable lawsuit against Microsoft, it was revealed the original ‘Vista Capable’ requirements as drafted in December…
Back in mid October 2007, after an upgrade gone bad, I had to abandon my custom built XP system and purchase an off-the-shelf HP PC with Windows Vista Home Premium. For the most part going from Windows XP to Windows Vista wasn’t too bad. A slight learning curve on the new interface and then of course the UAC (best explained with this Get a Mac ad). One problem I did not run into was not having certain peripherals not working with Vista. Both my monitor and printer were fairly new and had a ‘Works with Windows Vista’ sticker on them….
PC is trying to raise money to fix Vista (yes he is saying the ‘v-word’). Also think about this as you are watching this, “Just how much do they need to fix Vista?” [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVqcF9XowV8]
There is a new naughty word… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50DHHMBIJf8]
With Yahoo’s stock plummeting to $12.29 a share on Friday (October 10), a Yahoo investor is urging Yahoo to sell itself to Microsoft for $22 a share. From Reuters: Under the proposal by investment fund Mithras Capital, Microsoft would unload Yahoo’s Asian assets and non-search businesses, extract $3 billion worth of cost savings and receive $2.8 billion of tax benefits, meaning the software giant would pay $10.3 billion for Yahoo’s search business. A quick refresher on Yahoo’s stock: Closed at $19.18 per share on January 31st, the day before Microsoft made the offer Closed at $28.38 per share (up 47%)…
Nearly 4 months since the deal was called off, a research report from Rob Sanderson with American Technology Research today indicates that it is “increasingly likely” that Microsoft would make another bid for Yahoo at a “significantly lower” price. However, two Bank of America analysts don’t see this happening in the near future. News Source: The Microsoft Blog
Phase 2 of Microsoft’s newest ad campaign (sans Jerry Seinfeld) is I’m A PC Microsoft has entered a new phase of its $300 million Windows ad campaign. In a briefing this morning, the software maker said it’s releasing a 60-second commercial that seems designed to directly counter Apple’s popular PC-bashing Macintosh ads. …Phase II of the commercial campaign omits comedian Jerry Seinfeld, who figured in the three commercials* making up Phase I, but Phase II’s first spot does feature a brief appearance by company co-founder and chairman Bill Gates. I’m A PC: Pride [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS61ovpaA8Q] I’m A PC: I Am Not…
Ad #2: New Family. Running time about 4 minutes. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBWPf1BWtkw] Source: CyberNet News