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Microsoft bought Skype for one reason, and one reason only. Relevance. A quick reading between the lines of Balmer’s internal email supports this idea. Today’s announcement underscores who we are as a company. We are ambitious and forward looking. We have big goals and aspirations. And when we look into the world and see opportunities to do [...]  This is pretty typical of Cory but here’s a real world scenario that I have butted heads with today. I’m doing casual IT support for a small non-profit group and they decided some time ago to shift to the Mac platform. I understand their motivation and basically it kind of works for them but they [...] Although Rupert and Micro$oft tried to steal the limelight last week with their joint venture on Foxtel the big story appeared in the NY Times months ago where it wrote Google and Intel have teamed with Sony to develop a platform called Google TV to bring the Web into the living room through a new [...] Bernard Keene over at Crikey trotted out this little gem in the free Crikey newsletter that added to the clutter already existing in my inbox - Foxtel and Microsoft joined forces this morning to announce a fascinating new partnership!!!! Fascinating? New? what planet is Bernard on? Microsoft and News Corp (part owners of Foxtel along with Telstra [...] Not long ago I linked to Jason Clacanis’s video where he talked about the potential for News Corp to play off Bing against Google and today the Financial Times has another more concrete looking story which suggests that the Microsoft News marriage is all but done and dusted. News brings a fat dowry of rich [...] Is this a case of the enemy of my enemy is my friend? When Rupert talked recently about thieves he referred to Google and Microsoft as well as Ask but this seems like a obvious development, one that probably favours Microsoft because they gain more than just the business in search, it also strengthens their [...] Microsoft lawyers say In today’s world of universal connectivity, global business and collaborative innovation, it is time for a world patent that is derived from a single patent application, examined and prosecuted by a single examining authority and litigated before a single judicial body…A harmonized, global patent system would resolve many of the criticisms leveled [...] |
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