Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’
Why I’ve switched to Yahoo!
Posted in Technicalon May 6, 2008
A couple of weeks ago, I claimed that I was prepared to ditch Yahoo! if Microsoft bought them. Now that Microsoft has withdrawn its bid for Yahoo, I’ve decided to make efforts to use Yahoo more than I have in the past.
Yahoo’s ability to withstand a Microsoft bid was based in Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang’s claims that Yahoo has more potential and is worth more than Microsoft was willing to pay for it. Yang wanted Microsoft to pay $37 per share, and Microsoft only offered $33 per share. Now today, analysts are saying that if Yang is on a limited time line to get the trading price of Yahoo stock above $33 to prove he was right about not selling out to Microsoft.
I believe that Microsoft ownership of Yahoo would be very bad for the Internet. While Microsoft has currently withdrawn its bid, there is always the possibility that Microsoft will, in the future, attempt again to buy Yahoo. High stock prices are the biggest deterrent from future buyout attempts.
I want to do what I can to allow Yahoo stock prices to increase. I figure that I can do this by giving Yahoo as much legitimate business that I reasonably can. The easiest way to start is by switching the default search engine in my web browser to point to Yahoo. Perhaps I’ll find additional ways to give Yahoo more of my business. This is my small role in keeping Yahoo away from Microsoft.
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Dear Google
Posted in Technicalon Apr 16, 2008
Dear Google,
I think I have some good idea for you. So I’ve set up a new column on this blog so that I may suggest a few to you.
The first is that you should take a few weeks off. I’m sure that you don’t believe that Microsoft buying Yahoo! is a good thing for anyone. Unfortunately, the main drive behind Microsoft’s bid is competition from you, Google. Microsoft’s bid is also lower than Yahoo! would like, presumably because Yahoo! is struggling with a smaller market share, especially when compared to you, Google.
My suggestion is for Google to take a couple of weeks off. This would make Yahoo!’s stock soar out of the reaches of Microsoft, putting an end to the bid that would do no one any good. Now I’m sure that you probably don’t want to take a couple of weeks off, but you might be able to find other solutions, to help the situation, like placing Yahoo! advertising on your search results rather than your own. Whatever you can do to help Yahoo! look strong over the next month or so, might just be enough to discourage any takeover bid by the evil empire, Microsoft.
So until I write another Dear Google letter, I wish you the best of days.
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A Cnet News blog claims that Yahoo! might be bought out by Microsoft this week. If this happens, I am prepared to cancel all of the Yahoo! services that I currently use. I have little or no faith that Microsoft’s management of Yahoo! services will be satisfactory, so upon any sort of merger announcement, I will start looking for replacement services that I believe will better serve my interests.
As a developer, I currently trust the openness of Yahoo! developer APIs, but I would have serious concerns if I could depend on a Microsoft Yahoo for continued support of these APIs.
Some reports say that the Microsoft bid is simply to buy Yahoo!’s user-base. I refuse to be bought like that, and will remove myself from the user-base when it comes time.
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- Tags: Internet, Microsoft, news, Yahoo
Microsoft Recruiting at BYU
Posted in Businesson Jan 12, 2006
Ok, so some guy named Luis from Microsoft is here at BYU giving a technical presentation about how to develop a mobile devices.
I’m typing this as he is giving his presentation. So far, he seems like a friendly guy, and he knows what he is doing, but he doesn’t impress me as being an industry leader. He is going over a bunch of visual studio stuff, and since I really don’t care about visual studio, I’m not very impressed. He is talking about all of his specific features in visual studio, and all of them are either Microsoft platform specific, or things I’ve seen elsewhere in IDEs like Eclipse.
I started getting excited because he was going to show us about web services, but all it turned out to be was he did some visual studio thing and inserted some code he already wrote.
Why didn’t I sit closer to the door? I could have grabbed my pizza and been home by now.
So the base idea was that it is super easy to write mobile applications with visual studio. He said that if anyone could do anything similar on another platform in less than two days, that we should email him. I might take that challenge.
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- Tags: BYU, food, Job Search, Microsoft
In one of my computer engineering classes, we were briefly talking about Microsoft. My professor make a comment, “I’ve actually seen some Microsoft software work,” which spurred a debate about what that software could be: minesweeper, paint, or hearts.
Finally, the conversation ended with my professor saying, “I shouldn’t say that, some of you will probably go work for the evil empire.”
MSN Blog Censorship
Posted in Bloggingon Dec 4, 2004
I found this article about how MSN is censoring the blogs that it hosts. I’m actually not too upset about it, since most users are probably pretty aware of whats happening and they can move to another hoster like blogger.com, or even have their stuff hosted here on peargrove.com. But there is something else that really bugs me. Its in the end user license agreement of using MSN blogs:
Unlike rival services such as Blogger, MSN Spaces forces new users to grant Microsoft permission to “use, copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, modify, translate and reformat” their blog postings.
Wow, that is really horrible. What it is saying, is that if you use MSN Spaces, Microsoft owns your content. I don’t want Microsoft to own anything I create. I create it, and it is mine. Thats why my blog is hosted by me instead of by Microsoft, so I own my own content. I’m free.
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- Tags: blogger, censorship, Digital Privacy, Internet, Microsoft
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