Archive for the “Microsoft Fights Back” category
What Microsoft’s Purchase of Aquantive Really Says About Its Future
by Tony Hung on May 18, 2007
The situation? Microsoft has picked up Aquantive, an end-to-end advertising firm which was birthed just before the first bubble popped in the late nineties for a redmond-ian sum of 6 billion dollars and change. The issue? Microsoft paid almost 100% (…)
Google Goobling Up Startups? Its But A Part of Google’s Masterplan, Folks.
by Tony Hung on May 12, 2007
Some news bubbling out of eWeek, by way of Allan Stern at CenterNetworks, that Google likes to acquire smaller companies at a fairly prodigious rate — about once per week. Eye-popping and somewhat reflux-relieving if you’re a startup, but not (…)
Dell’s Crowdsourcing More Than Hype: Tells Microsoft to “Suck It!”
by Tony Hung on April 22, 2007
Well, not in as many words. But as a follow up to Microsoft’s contracts stipulating that new PC’s to be sold in 2008 will *only* be allowed to ship with Vista, it seems like Dell is intent on making IdeaStorm (…)
Microsoft “Dead”? Please.
by Tony Hung on April 7, 2007
Paul Graham, VC, and one of the many men behind Y Combinator, has pronounced that Microsoft is Dead. Well, if this isn’t one heckuva piece of linkbait. And on a quiet April weekend, its probably going to reverb until Monday, (…)
Vista To Run Life Support? How About A Simple Chest X-Ray?
by Tony Hung on February 2, 2007
Microsoft and medicine. What an interesting combination.
The Real Reason Why Google’s Getting Into Domain Registration
by Tony Hung on December 16, 2006
Google has its reason for Domain Registration … and I think I may know what it is.
SpeedBurps: Microsoft In The Echosphere
by Tony Hung on November 7, 2006
Microsoft in the news