Posts Tagged ‘microsoft’

Microsoft vs Google developments

2nd May 2006 6:06pm by JB posted in Archived

Since I logged on this morning and read about Amazon and this weekend’s change of search allegiance from Google to Microsoft for A9.com and alexa.com, America has woken and the debate has moved on a pace.
The New York Times has published an article discussing just how potentially serious this battleground is and it is being [...]

Microsoft redundant defense in EU case

25th April 2006 10:53am by JB posted in Archived

Microsoft’s EU hearing began in Luxembourg yesterday and things went as expected. The software company’s lawyers claimed that the ruling was flawed, which came as no surprise. What did interest me was the use of figures about the sales of Windows XP Home Edition N, the without media player package they have been forced to [...]

eBay - biting the hand that feeds

24th April 2006 1:10pm by JB posted in Archived

The latest news from the Internet super brands arena is that eBay has been in talks with Yahoo! and Microsoft to assess the growing threat from Google.
A Times Online article cites a concern that Google has turned aggressive and is wielding it’s pocket full of cash in a dangerous way, buying and developing technologies [...]

Hotmail Devolved

13th April 2006 10:02am by Chris N posted in Archived

Disclaimer: I know what ‘beta’ means!
Up until a few days ago I was using the new Windows Live Mail beta, instead of my usual Hotmail account. Now I’m back to good old Hotmail. Why? Mainly because the new system doesn’t work in Firefox. In my tricked-out browser of choice the whole Live Mail system is [...]

Amazon and Microsoft - blog or not?

31st March 2006 11:23am by JB posted in Archived

This week has seen two of the Net’s biggest names clashing over the subject of blogging. There’s been a lot of talk about company blogs and how necessary they are.
Nicholas Carr started the week by giving his rules for corporate blogs. And yesterday Robert Scoble (of Microsoft) and Shel Israel [...]