Posts Tagged ‘microsoft’
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Get ready for a Microsoft and Yahoo search engine partnership, as they are in talks of a new deal. The deal states that Microsoft will pay Yahoo several billions of dollars upfront to take over its search advertising business and guarantee certain payments back to Yahoo.
Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing.com has reportedly received good ratings. If the deal comes through, both Yahoo and Microsoft can gain. In addition, we can also get ready for some new innovative technology, which is caused by the intense competition.
Now, what does this mean for Google, currently the world’s largest search engine?
Google states that their primary competitors are Microsoft and Yahoo. They believe Microsoft will increasingly use its financial and engineering resources to compete, especially since Microsoft has more employees and cash resources. In addition, both Microsoft and Yahoo have longer operating histories and more established relationships with customers. Any teamwork between Microsoft and Yahoo will could lead to a decline in Google’s user traffic or the size of their network, thereby bringing a decline in their revenues.
Tags: bing, google, google competition, microsoft, yahoo, yahoo and microsoft deal, yahoo and microsoft parternship, yahoo and microsoft search engine
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Microsoft Corp. said that its new operating system, Windows 7, will be launched on October 22, 2009, well ahead of its original schedule of early 2010, making it just in time for the holiday shopping season. This version will be available on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, tablet PCs, netbooks, and media center PCs.
It’s been less than 3 years since its predecessor, Windows Vista, was released. However, Vista wasn’t a huge success due to problems such as compatibility with other software applications and components. Many corporate customers avoided the program, saying that it required costly hardware upgrades and that they preferred to rely on the earlier operating system, Windows XP. Vista overall received many complaints and now it is up to Microsoft to reverse its previous missteps with their new release of Windows 7.
Microsoft has said that Windows 7 will come in 5 different editions in most markets – Starter, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate. Windows 7 will include a number of new features, such as advances in touch and handwriting recognition. Presentations given by the company in 2008 have focused on multi-touch support, which is often associated with Apple products.
I am actually very excited to use Windows 7. I have been wanting a netbook (the mini laptops) for awhile now and I’ve considered getting it during this summer. However, a friend of mine bought up a good point and asked, “Why don’t you just wait until Windows 7 comes out?” In fact, I might actually do just that. The only downside about its release date is that Microsoft will miss some opportunity from students going back to school in the fall.
There are some YouTube links featuring the new Windows 7 if you want to check out some of their new features:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8AqXaNr8ag
Another question arises to our attention? How will Apple handle Microsoft’s new release? Do they also have something locked up, perhaps even better than Windows 7?
Tags: apple, bill gates, computers, holiday shopping, microsoft, msft, multi-touch, netbook, operating system, windows 7, windows vista, windows xp
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
Bad and good news from Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) Bad news? Microsoft’s Q3 profits has fallen 32% to $3 billion. Microsoft’s stumble is not totally restricted to the recession and cautious consumer spending, but rather, it also includes a consumer shift to small computers. Microsoft said 10% of computer sales in their first quarter were for netbooks, which are these small laptops (very portable and convenient, which I am actually considering to get one myself- I have been looking at this Acer netbook for only $349 with 160 GB and 1GB memory. Pretty good deal!)
More bad news? In fact, this is the first time in its 23 year history as a public company to have fallen this much! Previously this year in January, Microsoft said that they needed to lay off workers, cutting 5,000 jobs.
Good news? Companies that want to test their applications for compatibility with Microsoft’s new operating system (OS), Windows 7, do not have to wait much longer! Microsoft has announced that it plans to make its Windows 7 available for trial in May. This needs to be a big hit because Windows Vista has failed to catch on with mainstream computer users. I, myself, still use Windows XP and I know many companies that are still using XP as well. Maybe the release of Windows 7 will be just in time for when students begin purchasing their back-to-school supplies.
Right now, MSFT is up 8.46%, trading at $20.52.
Tags: acer, current news, microsoft, netbooks, operating system, os, profits, quarter earnings, vista, windows 7
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Friday, April 10th, 2009
Recap of last year:
Early last year, Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo for about $44.6 billion. However, former CEO of Yahoo, Jerry Yang, refused to sell the company that he had co-founded. Many outraged shareholders have even named him as “Idiot of the Year.” Although Yahoo’s shares have declined because of the failed acquisition, maybe we should see Yang’s perspective. If you had founded a company, and it was your very own company, would you be willing to sell it or do you think you still have a good chance to help it prosper, especially considering that it is Yahoo? Let’s not forget how strong Yahoo had been and how it had dominated the market before Google came. Many would still say yes that the acquisition should have taken place because, what Yang had done, many had considered rather selfish. It seemed like he did not think about his shareholders, as the (probable) best option would have been to sell Yahoo.
This year:
Since Microsoft’s offer, Yahoo’s stock has shed more than half of its value since this time last year, when Microsoft was offering to buy the company for $31 a share. Yahoo is currently trading at around $13 per share.
Now, sources (WSJ) have revealed that Yahoo is in a informal discussion with Microsoft oabout a possible partnership to sell online advertising, a market which Google obviously has dominated. Carol Bartz is now the CEO of Yahoo, taking over Yang’s position since he had stepped down last year. If Microsoft and Yahoo do agree to work together, can they even come close as to challenge Google? Should Google feel afraid or threatened if this partnership succeeds?
Tags: acquistion, advertising, carol bartz, current news, google, idiot of the year, jerry yang, microsoft, yahoo
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Saturday, April 4th, 2009
It’s been weeks when we first heard about International Business Machines Corp’s (IBM) interest in acquiring Sun Microsystems Inc. (JAVA). Still undecided, IBM has finally decided to cut its offer price to buy Sun to about $9.50–which reduces its initial offer by roughly $750 million. If these two corporate computer giants do merger, there will probably be tighter anti-trust laws.
This somewhat reminds me of about a year ago when Microsoft was in talks of wanting to buy Yahoo and Microsoft lowered its offer after weeks of Yahoo’s indecisiveness. Finally, Yahoo declined the offer, leading its stock price to fall. Will Sun reject IBM’s considerably last offer for acquisition? I think it mostly will.
Tags: current news, ibm, microsoft, sun, yahoo
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