Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has confirmed that Microsoft is no longer interested in buying his company but is looking at other relationships. Yang said that his company is not under Volish ‘siege’, but Steve Ballmer was negotiating other forms of partnership. He added that the Yahoo board was listening to such overtures. Had Ballmer wished, [...]

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During the joint Gates/Ballmer opening interview at the D6 conference on Tuesday the audience was treated to an early look at Windows 7, which, according to Ballmer, will ship to customers in late 2009. The demo showed a full-screen multitouch interface embedded in the operating system. There was a demo of a Surface-like app for [...]

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There’s one reason, according to Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft‘s deputy general counsel and vice president of intellectual property and licensing, that the company began opening up to the rest of the software industry following the U.S. antitrust case. “We set out to start opening doors and mending fences with a number of key industry partners,” Gutierrez [...]

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A new plan by Microsoft to allow its Office software to save and edit files in a rival format will face a probe by the European Commission. The Commission said late Wednesday that it would investigate whether Microsoft’s decision to add support for the Open Document Format to Office will result in greater consumer choice. [...]

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Top Vole Steve Ballmer was shelled by an egg-wielder when he spoke at Budapest’s Corvinus University on Monday. The shy and retiring Microsoft CEO had just started to speak when a man stood up and started shouting “Give back the money of the taxpayers!”. It was unclear if he was a representative of the local [...]

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Google’s top brass are meeting Monday to figure out a response to how Microsoft’s new overtures toward Yahoo affect Google’s potential ad deal with Yahoo. Google and Yahoo have been discussing a partnership under which Google would supply some text ads alongside Yahoo search results; both companies expressed satisfaction with a limited two-week test. However, [...]

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Last week, billionaire financier Carl Icahn decided to launch a proxy fight in an attempt to force Yahoo into a shotgun marriage to Microsoft. Now, Microsoft has let it be known that it is still interested in pursuing some sort of deal with Yahoo. While another bid for the company isn’t currently in the cards, [...]

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There has been a big victory for Vole-hunters, as the French consumer association, UFC-Que Choisir, has won a court case entitling consumers to return their pre-installed copies of Windows XP for a reasonable discount. In France, it is illegal to bundle software and to refuse to reimburse the customer for unwanted licences, under Article L.122-1 [...]

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In an email to employees today, Microsoft’s Platform and Services Division president Kevin Johnson made the usual Microsoft promises about future Internet domination, and added that Microsoft will make a specific announcement about revolutionary search developments on Wednesday. Johnson said that Microsoft will be announcing a major new initiative. “We are getting better and better [...]

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Microsoft announced Sunday afternoon it has issued another proposal to Yahoo that calls for a transaction with Yahoo, but that would not involve the acquisition of all of Yahoo’s assets. The announcement comes just days after billionaire investor Carl Icahn launched a proxy fight to unseat Yahoo’s current board at the Internet search pioneer’s upcoming [...]

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