A year later, a Microsoft and Yahoo assault on Google still can’t be ruled out. Steve Ballmer says he’s still interested, and even though Yahoo’s new chief won’t kiss and tell, her apparent lack of confidence in her company is telling enough. And what does Google CEO Eric Sch...

startups, Software, IT Gregory T. Huang wrote: It could be the most exciting cloud-computing startup you’ve never heard of. It’s two guys in a room overlooking Lake Union, in a hard-to-spot building next to the Fremont Bridge. And it uses Amazon Web Services and other people’s comp...

Times are hard. For you, for me and especially major international corporations like Xbox 360 maker Microsoft. While at a trade show in Barcelona, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told Reuters, "Revenues in our industry, and in our company, will be affected by the economic conditions." Will b...

Yes, it’s happening. Microsoft has the idea that opening a storefront will somehow be a good thing this year. In truth, the lack of things to fill a store would seem to make it an improbable thing to do. You can only stack Xboxes, Zunes, and palettes of Windows 7 a few times before it becomes tedi...

Yes, it’s happening. Microsoft has the idea that opening a storefront will somehow be a good thing this year. In truth, the lack of things to fill a store would seem to make it an improbable thing to do. You can only stack Xboxes, Zunes, and palettes of Windows 7 a few times before it becomes tedi...

Yes, it’s happening. Microsoft has the idea that opening a storefront will somehow be a good thing this year. In truth, the lack of things to fill a store would seem to make it an improbable thing to do. You can only stack Xboxes, Zunes, and palettes of Windows 7 a few times before it becomes tedi...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had some thoughts to share on the sour world economy with CNET and EMC.  “I think if you did a fair analysis of the last 25 years and said what’s has been the top source of productivity gain in the U.S. or world economy, it has been information technology,...

We came across this blogpost mentioning Steve Ballmer’s email to his employees regarding recent layoffs. The email is dated January 22nd and Subject reads: Realigning Resources and Reducing Costs (This is an extract of the email, you can read in full here): In response to the realities of a deteri...

News Analysis. Hard times have hit Microsoft hard. The company missed fiscal second-quarter projections and refused to offer forward-looking guidance....

Layoffs, Software, Analysis Gregory T. Huang wrote: Here are a few thoughts after listening to the Microsoft earnings conference call. The software giant announced 1,400 layoffs today, with up to 5,000 positions being eliminated over the next 18 months, mostly at its Redmond, WA headquarters. (The c...