What's up with Microsoft India- May 29, 2008 (The following post about Microsoft India is a long read and is admittedly one big long comment stream paste job. But I've gone through about two months worth of comments on a theme that emerged on its own and kept going and going, post to post, even amidst all the Yahoo!-acquisition foolishness. I promised a follow-up post on the specific topic - here you go. I find great irony that while these comments were brewing here, InsideMS wrote up an internal story: "Is Hyderabad the New Redmond"...http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2008/05/whats-up-with-microsoft-india.html Microsoft + Yahoo! - Desperately in Need of Fat Lady to Sing "It's Over!"- May 19, 2008 Oy, what we desperately need here is a Fat Lady to sing the end of the 2008 Microsoft-Yahoo! saga. She's obviously in hiding because over the weekend news came out of Microsoft looking to get a bit of Yahoo!. Or a merger. And the rumor of Microsoft looking to acquire Facebook has started again, all associated with obscene prices that make no sense, except in the obscene-cash-cow Microsoft world where billions of dollars come easily and are blown easily.(Just a quick "page break" post given the..http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2008/05/microsoft-yahoo-desperately-in-need-of.html Microsoft Walks On By - Yahoo!- May 4, 2008 Well slap my ass and call me Judy! Microsoft is walking away from acquiring Yahoo!Hot Damn and Yahoo!(I have never, ever been so happy to trash a pending Mini-Microsoft post. Ah, yeah, it had a nice lemon analogy and everything but, well, forget it!)While sanity did not prevail in making this crazy offer, sanity prevailed in not doing whatever it took to make the Yahoo! acquisition happen. Initial coverage:Microsoft: Microsoft Withdraws Proposal to Acquire Yahoo! Microsoft says proxy battle not.http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2008/05/microsoft-walks-on-by-yahoo.html |