Microsoft is changing the way it will distribute its personal finance software. The company plans to stop selling Money Plus in boxed form. Also there will be no release for the year 2009. The company feels there is no need for incremental improvements. In a blog statement the company also says the following:
Annual Release Change
Microsoft […]
Back in 2005 Google invested about $1 Billion in AOL. Google now has reported to the Security and Exchange Commission that the investment is ‘impaired’. Which is a nice way of saying, ‘we screwed up investing in the bow-wow company’, and we are going to lose some big bucks on the deal.
Over at Yahoo news […]
According to this article posted over at Linux by an IDG staff writer, it seems that Google has been working behind the scenes supporting the Linux operating system. I recall when there was talk that the gOS that was being offered on some computers being sold by Wal-Mart, was being supported by Google. So in […]
At a press conference yesterday at LinuxWorld, IBM announced that it has partnered with Red Hat, Novell, and Canonical to offer “Microsoft-free” personal computers. IBM’s main goal is to offer Lotus Notes and Lotus Symphony software as an alternative to Microsoft office. So why is IBM making this move now?
Well it seems that Big Blue […]
Well the rumor about Microsoft cutting prices on their Xbox 360 in September is now confirmed by some authorities. But my question is will additional price cuts rally a Xbox 360 revival?
In my opinion, a price cut is worthy when a company cut prices on a unit but doesn’t cut down on the hardware. Cutting […]
China just passed a anti-monopoly law on August 1, 2008 and guess who gets to be the first up at the plate? Which has to beg to question? Did China pass the law for just one very special company? Do you think China might be just a little tired of enforcing Microsoft licensing? Do you […]
Microsoft appears to be on a mission to have more OEMs to add Windows Defender and also Windows Live One Care to their new systems. Microsoft is telling its partners that by adding these protections to new computers, users will have a more enjoyable experience. Microsoft is also trying to point out that these protections […]
During the past few months, as we all watched Microsoft’s dismal attempt to take over Yahoo, a couple of things struck me as strange. First, Microsoft has the ability, money and talent to improve their own search engine and to market it themselves. Second, as each failed bid was reported on the Internet, one started […]
In their annual report about the state of their company, Microsoft has defined their opinion of their competitors by defining the competitors business. Though the companies are not mentioned by name, it is fairly obvious that Microsoft is addressing Apple when they state:
A competing vertically-integrated model, in which a single firm controls both the software […]
On Sunday I was reading our local newspaper, which includes a computer column, when I read this. Seems that a reader was complaining about Vista [they even used the word ‘hate’] to describe their frustration and asked about doing a downgrade to XP. Seemed like a fairly straight forward question. But the answer kind of […]
