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Jon Miller drops out, so who's getting the top online gig at Microsoft?

Former AOL CEO Jon Miller, reportedly Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's favorite to lead the company's new online division, withdrew his name from consideration yesterday because he'll soon be joining Yahoo's board. So if not Miller, who's going to take on the task of saving Microsoft by building its presence on the Web? The top names under consideration: More »

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8:40 AM on Fri Jul 25 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
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Latest by N/A: Scott Ferber is the man! Scott built founded and sold Advertising.com to Time Warner. Scott is a serious operator, more »

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Is Ballmer on his way out -- and if so, who's the next CEO?

Emails are flying out of Redmond with this speculation: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's botched $50 billion bid for Yahoo could mean the end of his career. While Microsoft's board reportedly gave the CEO considerable leeway in handling the deal, his dithering approach and his failure to sell the deal both to Yahoo's board and Microsoft's own executives don't reflect well on the sweaty screamer. The only problem: Microsoft has no obvious successor for Ballmer. More »

6:00 PM on Sat May 3 2008
By Owen Thomas
5,062 views, 20 comments

Latest by tonashideska: How old are bill g's kids? more »

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Microsoft's conference call on $44.6 billion Yahoo offer

Microsoft has offered $44.6 billion to buy Yahoo in a cash-and-stock deal. Here are highlights from the conference call Microsoft is holding to discuss it.
5:35 a.m. Pacific: Steve Ballmer calls offer "significant." He called Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang last night to discuss it. A year ago, Yahoo management it "wasn't the right time" to discuss an acquisition.
5:37 a.m.: Kevin Johnson, who heads up Microsoft's Windows business and led its acquisition of aQuantive and the investment in Facebook, is talking about online-advertising industry economics. He describes it as a "scale" business in the areas of search advertising and ad serving. "Requires significant investments" in technology and infrastructure" leading to "a period of consolidation." The market is "dominated by one player" — he's obviously talking about Google. In other words, the antitrust argument has already begun. More »

5:40 AM on Fri Feb 1 2008
By Owen Thomas
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World, tell us why Google is better than us?

At least Microsoft owns up to its inferiority. Early next week a band of dejected Microserfs from across the company, from chief software architect Ray Ozzie on down, are meeting to discuss the company's floundering Web services like Windows Live Search and Hotmail. During the two-day powwow, they'll be discussing strategy and trying to figure out how to get Google addicts excited about the Microsoft's Live offerings. To help fuel discussion, Larry Hyrb, director of Xbox Live programming and official videogame-community spokesperson (who posts under the alias Major Nelson) asks Xbox users, "What do you think we don't get? I know Google may be better in some areas, but what makes them better? What makes us not as good?" I'm sure the minds at the Googleplex are resting easy to learn that Microsoft is still trying to figure out how to even copy Google well, let alone out-innovate it.

11:50 AM on Fri Oct 5 2007
By Mary Jane Irwin
1,019 views, 6 comments

Latest by N/A: The people that work for MSN.com need to understand that their prowess in software is NOT transferable to the web. more »

ray ozzie

Loose Wires: Your Mom is rated E for everyone

  • Game rating board ESA sues gaming blog Kotaku (a Valleywag brother blog) for writing about the best. gaming t-shirt. ever (pictured). [Kotaku]
  • The 49ers and A's both head south into Silicon Valley. [Contra Costa Times]
  • Ray Ozzie says he's stepping into big shoes by replacing Microsoft president Bill Gates. YOU DON'T SAY, RAY. [Guardian]
  • Fox Interactive steals http://myspace.com/bones from the band Bones, gives it to the Fox show Bones. Thankfully, the site replaces the band's page after an outcry, realizing what a stupid, stupid idea this was. Does MySpace realize they have users? [Techdirt]
  • Top dogs from blog platform company Six Apart gab for a half hour about the new version of Vox and the Web 2.0 Summit. [Six Apart]

6:42 PM on Fri Nov 10 2006
By Nick Douglas
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Guest troll: Stick a Vic in it, it's done

The defection of Microsoft's platform evangelist Vic Gundotra to Google, days after MS's Google assassin Martin Taylor slunk off, is more than a bad sign. According to Microsoft troll Chris Coulter, it's — well, picture a comically large stack of soup cans in a Disney movie. Now pull one can from the bottom layer. Chris plays war correspondent in this speed-and-liquor-fueled totally sober doomsaying guest post. More »

11:03 AM on Thu Jun 29 2006
By Nick Douglas
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Privateye: The wonderful Wizard of Ozzie Privateye strikes again. Ha! Ha! Jokes about Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie are the best! Mixed or burnt? [privateye on Flickr]
Original photo: DSC02003 [grex on Flickr]

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