Posts Tagged Microsoft
How Microsoft Can Turn The Negative Vista PR Tide
Things have been awfully tough for Microsoft over the past year. Aside from all of its woes with Yahoo and Jerry Yang, the company has faced a PR nightmare on the Vista front.
Add comment July 14, 2008
Microsoft bans TinyURL from Windows Live Messenger
It appears that Microsoft has banned TinyURL links on its Windows Live Messenger network. Currently it is not clear whether this is intentional or simply yet another slip up by Microsoft’s third-party partner which manages the URL blocking.
Add comment July 12, 2008
Web 3.0 – Could it unseat Internet giants like Google?
Microsoft’s acquisition of Powerset signals the building of a future when the world could have access to virtual “software agents” who “roam” across the Web, taking care of the day-to-day hassles of humankind. It’s called a “Semantic Web” and it really could change the Internet at a fundamental level.
Add comment July 8, 2008
Yahoo: We’re ready to do deal with Microsoft
Yahoo was hit with a one-two punch Monday–first a right jab from Carl Icahn, which is calling for the removal of Yahoo’s entire board, and then a left hook from Microsoft, which confirmed its support for Icahn’s proxy fight and said it’s interested in negotiating a deal with a “new” Yahoo board.
Add comment July 8, 2008
Celebrate Bill Gates Day with us here at Engadget
The end of an era; a fresh beginning; good riddance — whatever you think of Bill’s final day at Microsoft, it’s impossible to deny that his tenure there helped forever re-shape not just technology, but the world as we know it. So we’re declaring June 27th Bill Gates Day here at Engadget and hopefully you’ll forgive us for, like, totally tearing up now that he’s finally stepping out of his role as nerd-baron and into the shoes of full-blown immortal philanthropist. Hey, it’s Sir William Henry Gates III’s world, we just live in it — that means you, too, Steve.
Add comment June 27, 2008
