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More emails have been released in the Vista Capable case this afternoon. Including more on the email exchanges between Microsoft’s Ballmer and Intel’s Otellini and the loosening of the ‘Vista Capable’ requirements. Microsoft senior vice president Will Poole e-mailed Ballmer: Steve, following up on the call you took from Paul today, we have changed our program so that Intel’s current integrated parts qualify for ‘Vista Capable’ branding … This change completely resolves their problem. Also released were some emails regarding Best Buy’s CEO wanting to talk to Ballmer about Vista-related issues. One Microsoft executive described Best Buy as “whining.” while…

…Yahoo’s stock goes up or (in most cases) down dramatically .  A follow-up to yesterday’s post Microsoft/Yahoo: Ballmer “We are done…” At Wednesday’s shareholders’ meeting Ballmer said, “We are done with all acquisition discussions with Yahoo. I’ve said that a bunch of times. Somehow some people have gotten confused nonetheless.” Yes Steve, people are confused as your comments are “somewhat confusing”. Seattle PI reporter Joseph Tartakoff takes a look back at Steve Ballmer’s public comments on the possibility of a Yahoo deal over the past few months and the (mostly negaitvie) effect on Yahoo’s stock. Source: The Microsoft Blog

Weighing in at hefty 400 pages is Windows Vista For SENIORS, For senior citizens who want to start using computers. Also in the series is Switching to Windows Vista For SENIORS and More Windows Vista for SENIORS. Yep, more! This next edition is slightly smaller at 352 pages. I am not too sure if Windows Vista would be such a good idea for senior citizens who want to start using computers. Windows XP would seem simpler to use and can still be found on the ultra low-cost machines until June 2010. These machine would also be more suitable alternative for…

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…

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…