The News Review:
- Gates explains why Microsoft needs Yahoo
- Quarterly reviews show schools doing well superintendent says
- Doodling for Profits
- Microsoft publishes ‘incomplete’ XML specs
Gates explains why Microsoft needs Yahoo
ZDNet – Feb 20, 2008
–For a man a few months away from leaving his job Bill Gates has a lot on his mind. The Microsoft chairman is looking ahead to the time later this year when he will be focused full-time on fighting disease and poverty while also trying to do everything he can to help his software company in its battle against Google. These days that includes trying to sell… Since you mentioned the people how big of an issue do you think the cultural difference is? Because I mean obviously the key to retaining people is making sure that they actually want to work for Microsoft. Do you think there are significant cultural differences?Gates: We’ve had an extremely successful group here in Silicon Valley that’s done brilliant product work like Mediaroom and PowerPoint and we have a research lab down here. Yahoo wants to do breakthrough software. The engineers there want to compete very effectively against Google or any other thing that comes along. So I don’t think there’s really a different culture. If Yahoo had gone the direction of just being a media company and not said that software innovation was important to them then no there wouldn’t be that intersection because we’re about breakthrough software.
Quarterly reviews show schools doing well superintendent says
New Bern Sun Journal – Feb 19, 2008
¡§I don¡t believe it¡s just unique statewide. I don¡t know of many school systems across the country doing this. ¡¨Want to see the reports?Most of today¡s quarterly reviews were presented by school staff using Microsoft PowerPoint slides. The slides contained charts with test scores lockdown reports drop-out numbers and health-inspection scores. School officials said those slides will soon be available at www.
Doodling for Profits
BusinessWeek – Feb 20, 2008
It can even be the basis of a successful business plan. Instead Steve Clayton—then the chief technology officer for Microsoft’s U. Partner Group—showed.
Microsoft publishes ‘incomplete’ XML specs
Builder AU – Feb 19, 2008
E-mail Password Remember me. The Word Excel and PowerPoint file format specifications which were previously only available from Microsoft by request were published on Friday together with details of an open-source ffice binary-to-ffice pen XML (XML) translator project. The binaries were published in response to concerns among national bodies voting whether or not to ratify XML as an International rganization for Standardization (IS) standard according to Microsoft ffice program manager Brian Jones. The national bodies were concerned that third-party developers may have had difficulties converting ffice binary formats to XML referred to in the IS ratification process as “DIS 29500″. “To make it even easier for third-party conversion of binary format to DIS 29500 Microsoft agreed to.