Yahoo will reject Microsoft's £22bn bid and say it undervalues the ...
Independent - London,England,UK
By Karen Attwood Yahoo is set to rebuff Microsoft's £22.4bn takeover bid for the search engine today and say it "massively undervalues" the company ... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/yahoo-will-reject-microsofts-16322bn-bid-and-say-it-undervalues-the-company-780724.html

Microsoft, Sony Ericsson Enter Alliance
The Associated Press - It marks the first time Sony Ericsson is using Microsoft Windows Mobile in a departure from its collaboration with Symbian, an open operating system that is ... http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j7EMiw88tnRotqffUX3ZhtGARaUgD8UNOE3O0

Most Microsoft settlement money unclaimed
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USA
The other half goes right back to Microsoft. By STEVE ALEXANDER, Star Tribune This is the strange case of the $1 billion nobody wanted ... http://www.startribune.com/business/15468476.html

Who Owns Your Mobile?
BBC News - On a sunny Sunday evening in Barcelona, I've just met senior executives from Microsoft and Google, here to sell their vision of the mobile future - one ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/02/who_owns_your_mobile_1.html

Yahoo to Reject Microsoft Offer, May Find Few Options (Update1)
Bloomberg - USA - Yahoo, the Internet company that has failed to crack Google Inc.'s dominance of Web search, plans to reject a $44.6 billion takeover bid from Microsoft Corp ... http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aroRxIoc8j2k&refer=home

Microsoft slams the door on Vista pirates
ZDNet - USA - With the launch of SP1 Microsoft promised to put an end to two popular hacks used by pirates to allow a non-genuine install of Windows Vista to function in ... http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1267

"No Thanks, Microsoft" ... What Now?
InternetNews.com - USA - If Yahoo rejects Microsoft's $44.6 billion acquisition bid, as The Wall Street Journal has reported it will on ...
http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/02/no-thanks-microsoft-what-now.html

Is Microsoft Office Adware?
Slashdot - USA - An anonymous reader writes "Office may fall under Microsoft's own definition of adware. It links to third-party commercial add-ons, includes up-selling ... http://slashdot.org/articles/08/02/10/1653201.shtml

Microsoft offer too low - Yahoo! wants billions more
Sydney Morning Herald - Australia - On February 1, Microsoft offered $US31 a share in cash and stock for Yahoo. The company wants at least $US40 a share, or $US12 billion more than Microsoft ... http://business.smh.com.au/microsoft-offer-too-low--yahoo-wants-billions-more/20080210-1re5.html

Microsoft made its first unsolicited offer for Yahoo a year ago
BBC News - UK - When it was made, Microsoft's $31 a share offer was 62% above the level at which Yahoo's shares were trading. Yahoo's shares closed on Friday at $28.75, ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7237320.stm

Using Microsoft.Web.Administration in Windows PowerShell
By CarlosAg - A couple of months ago I wrote about using LINQ with Microsoft.Web.Administration to manage and query IIS 7.0 configuration. Somebody came back to me and said that LINQ was very cool but that it was very much Developer oriented and that ... http://blogs.msdn.com/carlosag/archive/2008/02/11/MicrosoftWebAdministrationInPowershell.aspx
CarlosAg Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/carlosag/

Sony Ericsson ties up with Microsoft for Windows Mobile devices
By Chris Ziegler - Microsoft has now won a veritable superfecta of licensing, landing deals with four of the top five phone manufacturers in the world to provide handsets based on Windows Mobile. The latest, announced today at Barcelona's Mobile World ... http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/232726144/
Engadget - http://www.engadget.com

Microsoft Office : mac 2008
By MJ(MJ) - Microsoft Office. http://flashprayer.blogspot.com/2008/02/microsoft-office-mac-2008.html
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Yahoo To Reject Microsoft bid - Infrastructure Angle Part III
By techhermit
It looks like Yahoo is set to reject the Microsoft bid. This article on MSNBC is a pretty good overview. Personally I think this is a huge
mistake. Yahoo cannot make the infrastructure investments required to beat Google. Microsoft can ... http://techhermit.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/yahoo-to-reject-microsoft-bid-infrastructure-angle-part-iii/
The Digital Cave - http://techhermit.wordpress.com

Yahoo to Gamble on Spurning Microsoft Offer
Unshaken by a two-year losing streak, Yahoo is poised to take its biggest gamble yet by rejecting Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid. Yahoo to
Reject Microsoft Offer How to Trade Yahoo's Decision ... http://www.cnbc.com/id/23095286
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