Alan Williams

Online Ad Bubble: aQuantive Deal Makes No Financial Sense For Microsoft

Given Microsoft's track record of running acquisitions, big and small, into the ground and having the said acquisitions virtually disappearing in 3 or 4 years, chances of anything but minimal return on this $6 billion investment are very low.

Microsoft’s Open Source Claim: What Are These Patents Really All About?

This is just another scare tactic from Microsoft.

We are going to sue Linux Distributors so don't go switching away from Windows to desktop Linux and get caught in the crossfire.

Microsoft, through Steve Ballmer, has been openly accusing Linux users of patent violations, for 2 or 3 years now, without actually saying which patents have been violated. Since they have never disclosed the specific violations they have probably lost the rights to defend those patents in question.

Given the recent Supreme Court ruling on Software Patents, the patents were probably indefensible in the first place.

Microsoft/Yahoo: The Reasoning Is Sound

Every company Microsoft has gobbled up has slowly underperformed it's way into oblivion.

Yahoo will be no exception.

Microsoft will wish it still had that $50 billion in the bank in 3 or 4 years.

When Will Microsoft Own Up to the XBox 360 Bomb?

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Microsoft releases numbers of Xbox 360 shipped, not sold. they have sold only about 5 million units world wide. Both PS3 and Wii have outsold Xbox 360 every month since December.

Xbox 360 is a disaster sitting in third place in market share.

Microsoft should stop these hair brained schemes to diversify and start paying the shareholders these billions of dollars of their money that they are squandering.