In a move which surely has Steve Ballmer tossing chairs around the office this week, China has announced that it will be investigating the Redmond company for every other major political entity's crime of choice these days: manipulative monopolistic business practices. In particular, the State Intellectual Property Office will be looking into software bundling, and discrimanatory pricing practices.
This had to be especially frustrating for Microsoft because China is one of those markets where the company has actually cut their pricing in order to combat software piracy. And the company has long been frustrated by the reluctance of the Chinese to significantly enforce IP laws to reduce piracy. It must seem like terrible bad faith to have your product ripped off egregiously, to then lower your pricing in an effort to accomodate the country's financial issues, only to then be told you're suspected of charging too much and may face sanctions.
Microsoft has said they w...
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Gates on Google From: cio-weblog.com Post Date: 2008-03-04 08:18:37
Since you want unbiased commentary, I thought it would be best if I put up a link to this eWeek article quoting Bill Gates talking about Google at this week's Sharepoint conference in Seattle. He says, basically, that they stink and don't know what they are doing and, ha ha ha, of course Microsoft has nothing to fear from them on the business collaboration front.
More importantly, and more generally, Gates implied that Google doesn't understand business needs and remains mired... more
To be honest, I am a bit Microsofted-out after the last few weeks, but I have one last thing to mention before I go on a Microsoft-moratorium (which will only last as long as they fail to make some newly egregious newsworthy move in the marketplace, I'm sure). That thing is the new operating system, Singularity, released recently to Codeplex by Microsoft Research.
Singularity is not intended as a Windows 7 precursor or in fact as a "true" Microsoft operating system at all; ins... more
iPhone 2.0 From: cio-weblog.com Post Date: 2008-03-06 15:41:35
As expected, Apple's announcement today regarding enterprise options in the new iPhone SDK was a doozy: the company has unveiled the long-rumored support for Exchange ActiveSync, the absence of which had been one of the largest obstacles to effective iPhone use in the average Exchange-based enterprise (in other words, most enterprises).
The SDK was also released in beta, but the built-in business-ready features are the real news. The Exchange integration sounds pretty deep on th... more
So hinted Apple CFO Pete Oppenheimer yesterday during a Morgan Stanley technology webcast, according to CIO Magazine.
From the article:"Tomorrow we're going to talk a bit about the iPhone in the enterprise at our event on campus," said Peter Oppenheimer, chief financial officer of Apple, via a webcast of the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference. "We believe the iPhone is great for all parts of the market, including the enterprise."
This comes in concert with the release of an officia... more
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