Posts Tagged with ‘msft’

What do Viacom, Disney, Microsoft, and MySpace have in common? They all want to set “guidelines” in order to maintain copyrights online.
Yes, all four (seems a strangely small group considering the proportions of the effort, no?) have joined hands to work to establish a commonly acceptable system which will purportedly “stop pirated material” from proliferating and generally protect copyright rules from widespread subversion.
And all four will fail at the job. Well, okay, maybe they will, maybe they won’t. To [...]

Starting today, Microsoft is “phasing in” a new version of Live Search, its online engine, in order for the company to better compete with two much more popular such venues on the Web, Yahoo! and Google. In a week, the new Live Search will replace the current version for all of Microsoft’s US-based users and will be accessible by all the world come the end of October.
What I can’t help but find most interesting about this announcement is Microsoft’s statement [...]

Microsoft executives met with financial analysts yesterday, as they do regularly. They wanted let the market folk know after many seasons of shrugs and grumblings that they do in fact notice Google, among other competitors, making significant inroads to supply businesses and individual consumers alike with feature-rich Web-based products and that they intend to transition a number of their own solutions to the Web, as well as offer new services which complement existing localized utilities like those found in [...]