gigaom.com - 11/30/2008
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Microsoft’s battle to conquer the web has a certain Moby-Dick- like quality. Me-too products, muddled branding strategy and constantly playing catchup with competitors has reduced the king of software to a punch line. The more they try, the further they get. In the third quarter of ...
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adage.com - 12/6/2008
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New branded apparel is meant to suggest Microsoft's
1980s salad days Posted by Rupal Parekh on 12.05.08...
@ 08:54 PM NEW YORK (AdAge.com)—Microsoft is going from marketing computer programs to making clothes, with a new line of graphic tees dubbed ...
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Microsoft Turns to Crispin and the Rapper Common for New ...
internetnews.com - 12/6/2008
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Does Google Have a Secret OS? By Andy
Patrizio December 4, 2008 Net Applications caused a bit...
of a stir this week with a report that showed Microsoft's operating system share had dipped below 90 percent. This played very well where anti-Microsoft ...
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Another Day Another Yahoo Rumor [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... If true, that would value the search business — not exactly a champion — more than Yahoo’s actual market value of approximately $16 billion. Microsoft might be desperate to win online, but as we have seen time and again, trying to buy share in search is a failing strategy. With little or no sources, I find this story as unreliable as a piece of swiss cheese left for too long in the pantry. ...
Lu Hire Shows Ballmer is Switching Tacks to Help Microsoft Battle Google in Search
eWeek - RSS Feeds —
... , through the Microsoft Online Service gauntlet with no success. As Om Malik noted , Microsoft's online revenues were $770 million, up 15 percent from Q3 2007 in the last quarter. But the losses jumped 80 percent from the previous year to $480 million. That's staggering for a company of Microsoft's historic economic efficiency. Lu will attempt to boost Microsoft's struggling search and online ad efforts, as well all the company's online information and communications services, reporting to Ballmer. By hiring Lu, analysts see Ballmer as taking a page out of ...
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The Microsoft Yahoo story apparently gets a new twist according to the Times Online.
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