Biggest Deployment of Gmail, Outlook/Exchange loses out

NSW schools has opted for Gmail for students rather than Outlook. Aside from a massive cost saving this will also allow easy email access outside of schools plus access to Gmail’s great spam filter system and other applications.
Google partner SMS Management and Technology has emerged as the leading bidder to supply the NSW Department of [...]

Microsoft to lure search users with cash

According to Todd Bishop’s blog, Microsoft is all set to to lure search users with cash!
Microsoft has tried almost everything to get more people to pick its search site over Google, without much luck. So maybe a little cash will do the trick.

A screenshot of the Live Search cashback site.

That is the idea behind a [...]

Microsoft, Yahoo may team up on Web search

NEW YORK - Microsoft Corp., the software maker that scrapped a $47.5 billion bid for Yahoo! Inc. this month, may forge a partnership with the Internet company in the search-advertising market to challenge Google Inc. Microsoft, which abandoned its takeover attempts May 3, said Sunday that it’s exploring a transaction with [...]

Microsoft Prefers Flash to Silverlight

A very interesting point noted on searchenginewatch. Microsoft still has not adopted Silverlight, and uses Flash all over it’s websites.
“Despite all the controversy over Microsoft using Silverlight to take over the rich internet market from Adobe Flash, the software giant seems to be not even trying. In fact, even most Microsoft web sites are [...]

Yahoo Shareholders Aim To Reignite Microsoft Deal

The Los Angeles Times reports, “Yahoo Inc. shareholders are so mad about the company’s failure to cut a deal with Microsoft Corp. that several said they would consider a proxy fight to oust Chief Executive Jerry Yang and Yahoo’s board of directors if that would bring the Seattle suitor back to [...]

Report: Microsoft-Yahoo deal may go hostile Friday

Citing unnamed people familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal reported early Friday that the world’s largest software maker may be preparing to go straight to Internet pioneer Yahoo’s shareholders. An announcement was “likely” to come Friday, according to the report, though the newspaper said its sources cautioned that Microsoft may delay.
Chief Executive Steve [...]

MS Bashing is out of fashion

Microsoft-bashing was in vogue the last century!!!
My partner asked me recently why people hate Microsoft so much and it’s a question I’ve been pondering for a while, as well as thinking about my own attitudes towards the world’s largest software company. I consider myself to be in an unusual position in that I’m a Java [...]

Microsoft to launch a hostile bid: Reuters Poll

Most Wall Street analysts believe Microsoft now faces a drawn-out proxy campaign to win its unsolicited takeover of Yahoo!

Live mesh explained

Live mesh explained in plain English for the uninitiated

RedHat’s loss, Ubuntu’s Win

Does Red Hat’s exit now leave the desktop Linux field open to Ubuntu? I would say, yes!