Norwegian browser vendor Opera apparently struck the fancy of European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes with their December 2007 complaint about Microsoft’s inclusion of Internet Explorer with Windows (more details including browser tie-ins like desktop search and Windows Live here). Toda...

John Waples at the (UK) Sunday Times has revealed details of yet another purported search deal under negotiation between Microsoft and Yahoo that would have Microsoft financially supporting a new Yahoo management team in return for  a 10-year operating agreement to manage Yahoo’s search b...

Since the whole point of the "Friday Offer" from Microsoft and Carl Icahn to Yahoo’s board of directors seemed to be to build support for Icahn’s proxy fight for control of Yahoo, I was surprised that Microsoft and Icahn didn’t have a rapid reaction PR team ready to count...

The rumors of an Xbox 360 price reduction came true today, but it turned out to only be a clearance sale on the 20GB version as Microsoft has replaced it with an 60GB version at the old price: Microsoft Corp. is giving consumers more gigabytes for their buck. The company today announced an Xbox 360 ...

The share price of VMware tanked yesterday when the virtualization software vendor and Microsoft competitor replaced its CEO, co-founder Diane Greene, with Paul Maritz, a former Microsoft executive: VMware’s Board of Directors announced today that it has made a change in the leadership of the ...

The major problem with Carl Icahn’s proxy fight to take over Yahoo has always been that he offered no remedy for the company’s ills and the shareholders’ discontent other than selling part or all of it to Microsoft and it was not clear that Microsoft would play. That doubt was disp...

A little pre-holiday humor from Henry Blodget - Yahoo, Microsoft, Time Warner, News Corp, and AOL Agree To Talk Forever And Never Do Anything: All major Internet companies not named Google are in talks about mergers, partnerships, spinouts, and other proposals to quiet irate shareholders and stop ge...

Today, Microsoft announced that Hyper-V, the virtualization hypervisor for Windows Server 2008 was released to manufacturing. Customers are supposed to be able to grab the final version at http://www.microsoft.com/Hyper-V, but that page doesn’t seem to have been updated just yet. Hyper-V will ...

Reuters’ Daisuke Wakabayashi snagged an interview with Chris Capossela (the Microsoft SVP in charge of Office) who delivers some startling prognostications about the future of Microsoft’s Exchange mail server: "In five years, 50 percent of our Exchange mailboxes will be Exchange Onl...

On Sunday, Microsoft management thrilled the punters with an announcement that new discussions with Yahoo were taking place concerning an arrangement rather less sweeping than the failed acquisition attempt they gave up on two weeks ago: In light of developments since the withdrawal of the Microsoft...