Microsoft

Feb 02 2008

The big news this week of course is that Microsoft has unveiled a bid to buy Yahoo! for $31 per share in cash and stock. That equates to a $44.6 billion offer. As most industry analysts and pundits quickly realized, this is basically Microsoft’s latest attempt to try and stack up in the search market vs. Google.

Jan 14 2007

I’ve come to expect moves like this from Microsoft, but it makes no less annoying to deal with. Apparently the new version of Microsoft Outlook, Outlook 2007, will use the HTML rendering engine from Microsoft Word to display HTML email. Previously Microsoft Outlook used the rendering engine from, logically, Microsoft’s web browser Internet Explorer. What does this mean to you, dear email marketer?