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Why Microsoft Is Desperate for Yahoo
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| Microsoft is under assault in every direction, and losing the battle on any
| number of fronts. That's why it's so desperate to come to terms — any terms —
| with Yahoo.
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http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1807655,00.html
Google in urgent talks over Microsoft-Yahoo! deal
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| Google executives convened an emergency meeting last night to discuss the
| implications of a possible revived deal between Yahoo! and Microsoft.
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| The pair are understood to be negotiating a deal concerning the control of
| advertisements that are displayed next to internet search results, a market
| that is dominated by Google. The joint venture could be sealed in the next
| few days.
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http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article3965896.ece
http://tinyurl.com/4qgczc
Recent:
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that. Perhaps Google on that layer, although frankly speaking,
| most of what we have there is upside. We're small and they're big. (With)
| most things, we're big and the other guy is small, so we have more to lose
| than gain. In this case, we have more to gain than to lose with Google.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
Can Ballmer pilot Microsoft through a changed tech course?
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| Can Ballmer steer Microsoft out of the roadblocks?
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| The highly competitive Ballmer, you might say, is the man who cried "nice."
| And like the boy who cried wolf, no one believed him. The software giant's
| attempt to make nice with much of the developer community by opening up its
| APIs for key products was greeted with a jaundiced eye by regulators at the
| powerful European Commission.
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| However sincere Microsoft's stated change of heart may be, it is becoming
| clearer and clearer that Microsoft -- which knows it has to change -- is
| still struggling to find a fresher path.
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| What's a poor CEO to do?
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| Now that Bill Gates has effectively left the building, Ballmer is free to
| transform Microsoft, a job made all the tougher by the enormous reservoir of
| mistrust the company has engendered over the years.
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| Case in point: the open APIs. Microsoft will give its competitors free access
| to the application programming interfaces and protocols it uses to ensure
| interoperability between its own products, a very significant change in
| business practices.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/tech-bottom-line/archives/2008/02/microsoft_open.html
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