Microsoft Rebooted: How Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer Reinvented Their Company
Mashable (Free subscription) | yesterday
Windows 7 is doing well, which gives the number crunching crowd an opportunity to compare it with Mac OS X – if only for a moment. According to Internet metrics company Net Applications, Windows 7 last weekend powered (on average) 5.07% of PCs, while in that week Mac OS X (in all its iterations) powered around 5% of computers worldwide. Since Windows’ overall market share is 92.64%, it’s...
BetaNews (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews Over the last five years, Microsoft has undergone a gradual, but significant, shift in its public image, a shift toward interoperability and a willingness to play more fairly in competitive markets. At the same time, it remains a commercial software producer committed to the protection of its proprietary intellectual property. Openness, as CEO Steve Ballmer explained...
Search Engine Watch Blog (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Chris Liddell will be leaving his role as Microsoft's Chief Financial Officer at the end of 2009. Replacing him will be Peter Klein, who has been corporate vice president and CFO of Microsoft's Business Division (MBD). Here's the official Steve Ballmer statement on the matter: Chris and his finance team have accomplished a great deal over the past four and a half years. The team is deep and strong,...
WebPro News (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Chris Liddell, who's served as Microsoft's chief financial officer for four and a half years, intends to leave the company rather soon. Microsoft announced that Peter Klein will be transitioning in over the next month, and then Liddell will depart at the end of the 2009. It should comfort Microsoft fans and/or shareholders to know that Liddell isn't leaving in any sort of disgrace; CEO Steve Ballmer...
France24 (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
US software giant Microsoft announced on Tuesday that chief financial officer Chris Liddell will leave the company at the end of the year. The Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft said Liddell, 51, a New Zealander, would be replaced by Peter Klein, 47, currently the CFO of Microsoft's Business Division. "Chris and his finance team have accomplished a great deal over the past four and a half years,"...
CloudAve (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Big news for the Kiwis out there – Microsoft CEO Chris Liddell is leaving the company at the end of the year. The Microsoft position was a bit of a coup for New Zealand, one of our own filling a high profile role for a (very) high profile company. Liddell himself seems upbeat, saying that; My time at Microsoft has been an outstanding experience, and I am delighted to be leaving the company in...
Microsoft Watch (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
The blog Microsoft Kitchen (motto: "Serving up some seriously tasty Microsoft," which for some inexplicable reason creeps me out) posted two roadmap slides--purportedly shown by Microsoft during PDC 2009 in Los Angeles-- suggesting that both the next Windows Server and Windows 8 would be released in 2012. The rumor mill has been churning busily away on Windows 8 for some time. Earlier in...
Make Money Online Info and Tutorial (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Windows 7’s overall superiority to Windows Vista has translated into the latest iteration of the Windows client, leaving its predecessor in the dirt in terms of commercial success as well. Windows 7 RTM has been embraced by over three times more customers compared to Vista RTM in the first week on the market alone. Market research company, The NPD Group, indicated that initial sales of the boxed,...
Robs Windows Help (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
I don’t have an iPhone (not surprisingly I don’t want to have Steve Ballmer jumping on it ) but if I did one of the first apps I would have is the Bing Wallpaper Downloader for iPhone so I can look at all those beautiful bing wallpapers Source : Redmond Pie Thanks to @TaimurAsad for the tip Rob Technorati Tags: Bing , iPhone
The Agonist (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Probably not since the "page info" says it was modified on January 2, 2009. But it should be. It's too perfect! It serves as a sublime retort to the nihilism of Murdoch and bad taste on Microsoft's part. http://www.google.com/microsoft.html It's semi-official, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation will operate in an internet gated community provided by Microsoft's latest attempt at a viable...
TechFlash (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Steve Ballmer wants to beat Google. Rupert Murdoch wants his publications to make money. So they've been hatching a plan to remove the Wall Street Journal and other News Corp. properties from Google, with Microsoft paying Murdoch to give Bing exclusive access -- setting a precedent for other online publishers that would ultimately force Google to follow suit or score millions of new users for Microsoft's...
The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
I am not sure if you can put a price on stupidity or not; but I am pretty sure that if you could weasel out of Steve Ballmer how much this possible getting into bed with the newspaper giants is going to cost you’d have a pretty good idea. When the news broke late yesterday it [...]
TechFlash (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
In October, hoping to reduce expectations in advance of Windows 7's launch, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer noted that Windows Vista also received favorable reviews from testers prior to its launch. "I am optimistic," he told Bloomberg News in an interview about Windows 7, "but the proof will be in the pudding."
Computer Nerds Blog (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Hugh Pickens writes "The Financial Times reports that Microsoft is in discussions to pay Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, owner of newspapers ranging from the Wall Street Journal of the US to The Sun of the UK, to 'de-index' its news websites from Google, setting the scene for a search engine battle that could offer a ray of light to the newspaper industry. Microsoft is desperate to catch Google in...
SiliconRepublic.com (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Window 7 has achieved record sales levels - more than double those of previous operating system (OS) releases - a triumphant Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told a shareholders' meeting last week.
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