Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 7 is dropping the built-in Vista applications for email, photo management, and movie making in favor of applications downloaded from the Web:
The software maker included Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Mail, and Windows Movie Maker as part of Vista, but later chose to offer separate downloadable Windows Live programs that essentially replaced those [...]

Microsoft jumped into the brawl between Yahoo and investor activist Carl Icahn on Monday, issuing a “set-the-record-straight” statement on its rejected sweetened offer for Yahoo’s search business.
For starters, the software giant’s search-only proposal “did not include changes to Yahoo’s governance.”
In other words, it was Icahn, the other half of Microsoft’s joint proposal, who was asking [...]