Silverlight 2 introduded at Mix08
MS today at the Mix08 announced the availability of Silverlight 2 which is currently in beta 1. Silverlight 2 has a lot of new features that were also been showcased by associated MS partners at the Las Vegas event. It follows after the success of Silverlight 1 which currently gets downloaded 1.5 million times a [...]
Microsoft fined $1.3 billion by the EU
Microsoft has been fined 899 million euros ($1.35bn) by the European Union for charging too much for their software information to rival software companies that create software compatible with Windows products.
This is the second time the EU has penalized Microsoft in the 2004 antitrust rulings. The initial fine was 497 million euros in 2004 [...]
Microsoft deploys Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1
It is been widely reported online that Microsoft have made available the new version of Internet Explorer for beta testing. The new version, Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1, is only available to a select invited testers. In an email put up on ActiveWin, an active Windows community, it goes on and say that the public [...]
Microsoft Goes Open Source?
Microsoft is to embrace the open source society after announcing that it is going to make published 30000 pages of Windows documentation available to all developers that might be wanting to make software products that work with Windows. In the past the documentation was only available to a select few under a trade secret license.
This [...]
Yahoo! officially reject Microsoft’s bid.
As it has been widely reported throughout the weekend the Yahoo! board, on Monday, has officially rejected the proposed bid by Microsoft. Yahoo! states that the bid undervalues the company and therefore its not in the best interest of Yahoo! and its stockholders.
After careful evaluation, the Board believes that Microsoft’s proposal substantially undervalues [...]
Yahoo! set to reject Microsoft’s Offer
Rumours have been spreading fast on the Internet this weekend that on Monday the Yahoo! board is set to reject the Microsoft offer to buy the company. In the initial bid Microsoft offered $44.6bn (about $31 per share and options) but Yahoo! feel like the offer undervalues the company whose stock has risen sharply ever [...]
Yahoo! Outsourcing to Google?
I stumbled upon a great piece written by Mike Arrington at TechCrunch on which he talked about Yahoo!’s options and his general outtake on it. What caught my attention and got me thinking was the idea that Yahoo! would outsource their search advertising unit to Google, which is unlikely to happen because of the [...]
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