October 22, 2009 - 12:03 pm
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Today Microsoft will ring the bell on Nasdaq, as just one other way of celebrating the effective launch of its newest flagship product, Windows 7. The new operating system comes to the market just 3 years after the launch of the much announced Windows Vista, which never fulfilled the expectations of the market, nor that [...]
September 13, 2009 - 2:14 pm
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After all the excitement and press releases about the search deal between Microsoft and Yahoo, the serious market analysis is now beginning. US regulators have decided to scrutinize the deal, to understand if the reduction of the number of major search providers, from three to two, will hurt competition in the search market.
Regulators will likely [...]
July 30, 2009 - 12:10 am
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After months and months of merger and acquisition talks with Microsoft and Google, Yahoo has finally reached a deal to merge their search and search advertising functions with someone – Microsoft! The deal will last 10 years, and “Microsoft will now power Yahoo search while Yahoo will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales [...]
July 14, 2009 - 11:54 am
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If last summer was that of financial turmoil, this summer may very well become that of the long-seeked change of the software industry. What a month!
Microsoft launches Bing, Google responds with Google Wave. Google announces the Chrome OS, Microsoft responds launching a free Office version. OK, it will still take some time until we see [...]
June 30, 2009 - 7:59 am
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The latest edition of Wired is carrying an extremely interesting article on Facebook and its plans to dominate the Internet, comparing it with Google. I think that albeit the comparison is fair, it is missing a third –probably more relevant-player: Microsoft.
We all know that the social network is pursuing the aim of putting the users’ [...]
