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Microsoft Defends Its Empire
businessweek.com - 6/26/2009
Microsoft Defends Its Empire
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Microsoft is under siege from rivals offering cheap or free software on the Web. So it's revamping its Office suite and shifting into online services By Peter Burrows Watch the Video… When a Microsoft ( MSFT ) salesman dropped by IT consultant Westcon Group's Tarrytown (N.Y.) headquarters for ...
Microsoft hires not one but three more former Yahoo engineers - TechFlash: Seattle's Technology News Source
techflash.com - 6/24/2009
Microsoft hires not one but three more former Yahoo engineers - TechFlash: Seattle's Technology ...
— techflash.com — Everyone got a chuckle yesterday when Microsoft said it had hired yet another Yahoo executive, Kevin Timmons... , to lead its data center group. He joined a growing number of engineers and executives who have gone to Microsoft from Yahoo since the ... (more) Microsoft hires not one but three more former Yahoo ...

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wired.com - 6/25/2009
Kayak to Bing: Stop Copying Us! - Update | Epicenter
— wired.com — kayak_vs_bing2 Kayak, the popular multi-airline airfare search engine, thinks Microsoft Bing’s new travel search engine looks so... much like its own that it’s confusing Kayak users. The travel search company sent Microsoft a legal letter last week ... (more) Kayak to Bing: Stop Copying Us! - Update | Epicenter

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thesearchagents.com - 6/25/2009
Bing Brings More Conversions at Lower Costs
— thesearchagents.com — Three weeks after the launch of Bing, The Search Agency conducted an analysis of our advertisers' key... performance metrics on Microsoft's new "Decision Engine." See how conversions, CTR, and CPA are trending on Bing compared to Live Search. (more) Bing Brings More Conversions at Lower Costs

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Beyond Search:  Microsoft and Its Many Brands

MediaPost | Online Media News:  Around the Net In Online Marketing: Microsoft Implementing Changes to its Software Strategy

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Microsoft and Its Many Brands
Beyond Search — ... Business Week from its Olympian perch in Manhattan has broken new ground. News is no longer what the New York media mavens “do”. News, in case you missed the Iran story, is now in the hands of those with mobile devices. Reportage is the way to track events. Analysis is now where the Business Week type of publications claim purchase. “Microsoft Defends Its Empire” was an fascinating read for me. The premise of the business school type write up was: ...

Around the Net In Online Marketing: Microsoft Implementing Changes to its Software Strategy
MediaPost | Online Media News — ... and companies will maintain the programs on their own servers. Even so, Microsoft is betting that the subscription model will be a lucrative revenue source for the company. It can certainly charge big corporate customers more to rent the software as a service than it could just to buy the programs themselves. The wild card, Burrows says, is how costly it will be for Microsoft to assume the maintenance load. "Hanging in the balance is one of the great profit machines of all time." Read the whole story at ...

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