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Microsoft Reports Record Third-Quarter Revenue — Quarter marks the worldwide launch of Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008. — Income Statements — Segment Revenue/Operating Income(Loss) — Third Quarter Form 10-Q View the PowerPoint Earnings Release
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Microsoft: Yahoo ‘unrealistic’; Deadline stands; Quarter mixed — Update: Microsoft CFO Christopher Liddell said Thursday that Yahoo had “unrealistic expectations” about the price it could fetch and reiterated the software giant could walk away from the deal.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Microsoft earnings watch: more Yahoo bluster, Xbox business profitable — Earnings calls are a little like campaign stump speeches these days. Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell used his company's quarterly earnings call to rattle sabers with Yahoo again.
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:Earnings: Microsoft Net Income Down 11 Percent; Stock Slides On Outlook
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:Increased piracy hurt Microsoft's quarter
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The New Yahoo: Sticky, Viral, And Most Of All, Friendly — Yahoo's CTO Ari Balogh and Chief Architect (Platforms) Neal Sample filled in a few more details today around their new Yahoo Open Strategy (called YOS internally). — Background — Yahoo wants to turn itself …
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IDG News Service:
3G IPhone Due on June 9, Analysts Say — The 3G iPhone will be announced June 9, the likely date of Apple CEO Steve Jobs' keynote at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference, analysts said in research notes on Thursday. — The 3G iPhone will be the “first of an impressive wave of new products” …
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Clint Boulton / eWeek:
Battelle Casts, but Andreessen Doesn't Take the Bait — The Web entrepreneur won't be goaded into trashing Microsoft, the firm that crushed his Netscape and is now targeting former industry darling Yahoo. — SAN FRANCISCO—Try as he might, John Battelle could not push Ning co-founder Marc Andreessen to take the bait.
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geeksugar:
Inside Scoop: Apple to Unveil New iMacs Next Week! — Our Apple tipsters haven't let us down before, so we know that this hot-off-the press news is definitely fact and not fiction. Stay tuned, because next week (most likely Tuesday) Apple will be introducing new iMacs to their product line-up!
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Tech Beat, Gizmodo, One More Thing, CrunchGear, Electronista, MacRumors, Engadget, 9 to 5 Mac, Insanely Great Mac and LoopRumors
Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
Video Comments? No Thanks - 5 Reasons They Don't Work — Yesterday morning the web's largest web tech blog added video comments courtesy of of live video startup Seesmic. About 24 hours later, video comments had turned into a mini-trend with another 80 blogs installing them.
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WinExtra, The Stalwart, Online Media Cultist, SheGeeks, NewTeeVee, Quick Online Tips, Zatz Not Funny! and The Blog Herald
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
A Radio Interview with Marissa Mayer — (Hopefully fair-use thumbnail of a photo) — KQED FM hosted one of the most interesting interviews with Marissa Mayer, Vice President for Search Products & User Experience at Google. Some tidbits: — because of the limited environments …
Sarah Milstein / O'Reilly Radar:
A Successful Experiment — During Web2Open yesterday, we ran an experiment that turned out to be a big success. Because it felt like a model that could be extended and used by others—but it hasn't been blogged about widely—I'll explain here what we did.
Pete Kazanjy / Team Fusion:
VMware Fusion 1.1.2 Launches: Enhanced MacBook Air, Time Machine Support. Adds Simplified Chinese Localization. — The VMware Fusion team would like to announce the general availability of VMware Fusion 1.1.2, a free update for all VMware Fusion users. You can download this newest version here.
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Computerworld, The Apple Core, PC World, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and O'Grady's PowerPage
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Morgan Stanley exec named new Google CIO — Google has found its new chief information officer, CNET News.com has learned: Benjamin Fried, a programmer who rose through the ranks to run much of Morgan Stanley's computing infrastructure. — Fried, a managing director who led Morgan Stanley's …
Alex Iskold / ReadWriteWeb:
Faster - Why Constant Stress is Part of Our Future — A few weeks ago, the New York Times ran a weekend piece entitled In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop, which focused on the stressful nature of blogging. Using our friend Marc Orchant's death and Om Malik's heart attack as examples …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Filtering Google Searches By Freshness — One of the more useful Google advanced search features is the date filter, which limits results to recent pages. Results can be limited to the past day, week, month, year, etc. Google's Matt Cutts and GoogleOperatingSystem wrote about it late last year.
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Mike Ricciuti / CNET News.com:
Ballmer: You want XP, we'll keep XP — The death of Windows XP may have been greatly exaggerated. — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the company could re-evaluate its plans to phase out Windows XP by June 30, if customers demand that it stick around. So far, they have not. — “XP will hit an end-of-life.
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PC World, OSNews, Reuters, The Register, Engadget, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, CrunchGear and Ars Technica
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24/7 Wall St.:
The Mac: Apple's (AAPL) Achilles' Heel — Most analysts thought that the good news out of Apple (AAPL) was that Mac sales were up 51% to 2,289,000. Nothing could be further from the truth. — iPod sales sales have slowed considerably. They were up only 8% in the quarter. to 10,644,000.
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