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The Day Ahead: Does Microsoft Matter Anymore?
News Simply put, does Microsoft matter anymore? Amid a landslide of tech earnings Tuesday night, it wasn't hard to notice that Microsoft has lost its lustre. Given the glut of earnings conference calls last night, an investor had to make some choices...
[July 19, 2000, 11:59]
Microsoft Hits Back At Burst.com Allegations
News Microsoft has denied it used stolen intellectual property to build Media Player 9 and has called Burst.com's account of last week's trial on the matter "inaccurate" and "groundless". According to Desler, the judge "simply directed us to do a more...
[September 4, 2003, 12:05]
Microsoft May Authorise Yahoo Proxy Battle
News A person familiar with the matter told Reuters a proxy fight would cost about $20m to $30m, but the source was not aware of Microsoft making the decision to pursue the fight. Quoting people briefed on the matter, the Times website said Microsoft...
[February 20, 2008, 8:29]
DoJ's Klein Grilled Over Microsoft
News But Hyde was quick to add that in the Microsoft matter, "everyone would benefit from toning down the rhetoric. But neither official offered new details on any cases, including the Microsoft matter, that are in active litigation.
[April 13, 2000, 11:17]
Pricing Scuppers Media Player-free XP
Talkback And it doesn't matter to Microsoft if that means setting the clock of innovation and progress to a standstill for a couple of years. But it should matter to the rest of us. Smithy, Microsoft started taking huge chunks out of the Netscape market...
[June 28, 2005, 23:25]
Google Seeks Early Win In Microsoft Battle
News Microsoft last month had the California matter moved to federal court in San Jose, California. Google has now asked that federal court judge to - as a matter of law - rule on Google's behalf without a trial.
[August 30, 2005, 9:20]
Microsoft And Yahoo Execs 'held Takeover Talks'
News Senior executives from Microsoft and Yahoo met on Monday to discuss Microsoft's takeover bid for the company, according to two people familiar with the matter. The meeting with Microsoft is part of the company's strategy to keep all its options...
[March 17, 2008, 7:50]
AMD Chief Criticises Proposed Microsoft Remedy
News Federal trustbusters could not support Microsoft's motion, "as a matter of law," the brief stated. In a related matter, the Justice Department on Monday afternoon filed a "friend of court brief" requested by Kollar-Kotelly.
[April 17, 2002, 7:31]
Microsoft Ties Media Player To Windows XP
News Microsoft is awaiting an appeals court ruling on the matter that could result in a breakup of the company. No matter what the courts say (about the legality of bundling), Microsoft will look like a bully and get called a bully," said Frank Gillett...
[April 25, 2001, 7:55]
Microsoft And The GPL: Making The Virtual Out Of Necessity
Leader Fortunately for Microsoft, this doesn't matter. If XenSource is smart, it will continue to build good open solutions to these problems, while relying on the GPL to keep it free from interference and its output honest, no matter who it gets to go to...
[July 18, 2006, 16:10]
The Genuine Advantage In Windows' Woes
Leader It puts its business model first and refuses to compromise, no matter how flawed that model may be. If your operating system vendor, your network provider and your services companies conspire against you by going mad, bankrupt or broken, do you...
[August 28, 2007, 16:29]
Microsoft Offer Considered Inadequate - Part II
News In addition, Microsoft is also offering greater disclosure of the inner workings of Windows, known as the application-programming interfaces, people close to the matter said. As the talks have progressed, Microsoft has agreed to more stringent...
[March 27, 2000, 8:55]
Jesse Berst: After Microsoft: What's Next And What It Means To You
News Unless there's a settlement (unlikely), this matter won't reach final resolution for at least two years.the matter may be moot by then. Just in case you've been hibernating in a bat cave this weekend, here's what I'm talking about: US District...
[November 8, 1999, 10:49]
Google: OOXML 'insufficient And Unnecessary'
News A document standards decision may not matter to you today but, as someone who relies on constant access to editable documents, spreadsheets and presentations, it may matter immensely in the near future," wrote Bhorat.
[February 26, 2008, 10:38]
Lawsuit Opens New Can Of Worms For Microsoft
Talkback Last week, I tried to purchase a Widescreen Toshiba Satellite P25 notebook without Windows -(Without any OS for that matter)- for someone, and was told by all vendors I approached that my only choice would be to buy the Windows and then do what I...
[October 7, 2003, 14:35]
Java Has A Big Lead In Web Services
News One respondent asked why we wanted to know which technology they would use as "surely the point is that it doesn't matter. The evidence is that it does matter: the group intending to use both is small (6.8 percent).
[December 21, 2001, 15:06]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Whether it'll influence the future, though, is another matter. Doesn't matter if you're passing your parents a recording you made of your kid being cute: Zune will banish it. Unless Microsoft is willing to let other companies join in the fun, your...
[September 15, 2006, 18:55]
Teaching Old Dogs New DVD Tricks?
News The discs should play as simply as they do today, no matter which underlying video format is being used. Why does it matter? Once the discs come out, it will be a matter of matching a Blu-ray disc with a Blu-ray player, or an HD DVD disc with an HD...
[November 29, 2005, 12:05]
Becta Takes Microsoft Complaint To EC
News Becta's executive director of strategic technologies, Dr Stephen Lucey, has met with the Commission to discuss the matter and said on Monday that he welcomed the Commission's wider investigation. Lucey added, however, that Becta would prefer not to...
[May 13, 2008, 14:42]
Setting Up A New Windows PC?
News Some of these settings may be a matter of personal preference, but if you are going to truly know your This document lists 10 enhancements you should make to every new PC, no matter whether it is a workstation or the family media computer.
[November 2, 2005, 10:40]
