Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft

21
Aug

Hey Microsoft - Seinfield had a Mac

By justisengard 1 Comment
Categories: Apple and Windows
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Looks like Microsoft has finally had enough of Apple poking fun at Vista with its rather humorous, I’m a Mac commercials. It would seem that they have paid Jerry Seinfield $10 million dollars to appear with Bill Gates in some so-called ‘edgy Microsoft commercials. Hmmm, I wonder if anyone at the Microsoft marketing department actually watched Seinfield…cause Jerry Seinfield had a Mac in the show.
I am curious to see what the commercial will be. It is suppose ot air on September 4th.

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01
Feb

Microsoft wants to purchase Yahoo

By justisengard 0 Comments
Categories: Technology
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Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion.

Microsoft and Yahoo logosNot sure how this helps Microsoft. All the duplicate services will be a pain, integration a nightmare, which will only loose consumers to Google. I hate to think of the effect this will have Flickr and del.icio.us. As far as online services Google has the better services in my humble opinion. Gmail is infinitely better that Hotmail or advertisement ridden Yahoo Mail. Google Maps is the defacto standard now. Google even has an office suite online called Google Docs. The best thing that Yahoo has is Flickr and del.icio.us, and that was a purchase that they basically left alone. If it is search engine, I mean does anyone really think that they will beat Google at this. Google is so standard for online search that they have their own verb - to ‘google’ something. So, I am just not sure what Microsoft would pay such a premium for Yahoo.

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