Tag: Microsoft
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Hi-tech CEOs offer Yahoo, Microsoft merger advice
Categories: News and TrendsCARLSBAD, California (Reuters) – Microsoft and Yahoo seem to hang out in all the same places but somehow keep missing each other. That’s turned speculation over what it will take to get the two of them together into something of a CEO parlor game. Media magnate Rupert Murdoch said this week he is "mystified" the… Read more
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VARs Eye Boom in Hosted Microsoft Exchange Business
When Microsoft released its own hosted Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Sharepoint offerings to sell directly to customers this past March, many observers expected a cold reception from the company’s longstanding channel partners. And some may indeed have felt a shiver when they heard that the world’s largest software company, and one that had always been… Read more
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Former eEye CEO to Join Microsoft
Ross Brown, former CEO of eEye Digital Security and a veteran in the channel will start at Microsoft on June 2, Microsoft says. Brown will assume the title of vice president of solution and ISV partners in the Worldwide Partner Group and will develop and manage Microsoft’s global partner account managers who work with ISVs,… Read more
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Microsoft Gets Closer to Open Document Standard
ST GALLEN, Switzerland (Reuters) – Microsoft said on Wednesday that starting some time next year it will make it easier for users of an open-source rival to work with Microsoft Office. Without adding any special software to Office, users will be able to open documents sent to them in the open source Open Document Format… Read more
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Microsoft Urges U.K. Partners to Sign Up for Office Live
Categories: Tech CompaniesMicrosoft is urging partners in the United Kingdom to sign up for its Office Live Designer and Developer Community, hoping that the promise of nearly 1 million potential small business customers will add to its Office Live Small Business partner base. Microsoft’s Tim Kimber, director of product marketing, Office Live, says about 250 Office… Read more
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Microsoft proposes alternative deal to Yahoo
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp said on Sunday it has proposed an alternative deal to Yahoo Inc, rather than a full acquisition, in a move that could save the web pioneer from fighting a proxy battle with financier Carl Icahn. "Microsoft is considering and has raised with Yahoo an alternative that would involve a transaction… Read more