“Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer may have been crazy to offer $33 per share or more for Yahoo, but Yahoo was even crazier to turn it down. Okay, how about $22?”

Yahoo has been a top story this year mainly because Microsoft tried to buy it for $33 a share, or more. Crazy? Maybe. But there’s not much Microsoft can do with its money except give it back to shareholders.

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Microsoft Advert during XFactor UK

Posted on October 10th, 2008 by Jack in Miscellaneous

Microsoft has desperately turned to Simon Cowell to help sprinkle some X Factor dust on Windows Vista, giving the already has-been OS a last shot at stardom.

In its latest effort to get the youth to take up Vista, Microsoft will debut its ‘I’m a PC’ ad campaign in the UK during a commercial break in the first live X Factor show on ITV1 tomorrow night (Saturday 11th October)

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Xbox will not go Blu, says Microsoft

Posted on October 10th, 2008 by Jack in Miscellaneous

Microsoft has once again poured cold water over the latest rumour that it’ll launch a Blu-ray Disc drive add-on for the Xbox 360.

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