The News Review:
- Club news
- Video: Is Microsoft pen Source’s Friend?
- Can Microsoft’s corporate culture make room for Yahoo!?
Club news
St. Petersburg Times – Feb 24, 2008
Hernando Computer Club: This week's classes include: Introduction to Windows Vista part 4 of 4 10 a. today; Refilling Your Ink Cartridges and Using MP3 Players 7 p. today; Microsoft PowerPoint for Punch 10 a. Wednesday; Vista DVD Maker 1 p.
Video: Is Microsoft pen Source’s Friend?
InformationWeek – Feb 24, 2008
21 when it pledged to make “strategic changes in technology and business practices to expand interoperability. ” What does this mean in plain English? It’s Microsoft CE Steve Ballmer’s corporate-speak way of telling the open-source community that he can’t beat ‘em so he plans to try to outflank them. f course that’s not how Ballmer and Microsoft chief software architect Ray zzie explain their move in the video I’ve posted at the bottom of this blog… )The most important bullet point is this one: “Microsoft will [ensure interoperability with its products] by publishing on its Web site documentation for ALL application programming interfaces (APIs) and protocols in its high-volume products. ” This means Word Excel PowerPoint SharePoint Vista Windows Server SQL Server and Exchange. That got me all excited so I immediately went looking for the Vista stuff.
Can Microsoft’s corporate culture make room for Yahoo!?
computerworld.com – Feb 24, 2008
It is a big smart screwed-up company. Part of that screwiness has to do with the way Microsoft manages the companies it acquires. This stems I believe from a bad experience in the company’s very first acquisition when it bought PowerPoint. Even though this late-80s purchase was of a company with fewer than 50 employees both Bill Gates and then-CE Jon Shirley told me the experience was horrific for Microsoft. It was a problem of trying to merge corporate cultures that were very different. And the lesson learned was not to even try for such a merger… It is a big smart screwed-up company. Part of that screwiness has to do with the way Microsoft manages the companies it acquires. This stems I believe from a bad experience in the company’s very first acquisition when it bought PowerPoint. Even though this late-80s purchase was of a company with fewer than 50 employees both Bill Gates and then-CE Jon Shirley told me the experience was horrific for Microsoft. It was a problem of trying to merge corporate cultures that were very different. And the lesson learned was not to even try for such a merger. For the sake of Microsoft the new model says that the corporate culture of the company being bought has to die.