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Why Microsoft bought Skype

May 16, 2011

Cringely thinks it’s simply to stop Google getting it: “Were Google to buy Skype they’d convert those 663 million Skype subscriptions to Google Voice and Gmail and in a swoop make parts of Yahoo and MSN irrelevant. They’d build a brilliant Skype client right into the DNA of Android, draining telco revenue and maybe killing [...]

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Why Microsoft is right to hold off on a tablet

January 13, 2011

Image by Getty Images via @daylife Joe Wilcox, Betanews: “Ballmer was right not to make any major tablet announcement, showing off something that wasn’t ready. Any zealous tablet push would have led to bloggers, journalists and Wall Street analysts making iPad comparisons. By staying away from Apple and iPad, Ballmer kept the message pure, which [...]

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Ballmer predicts Windows PC 2010 = Macintosh 2008

July 31, 2009

More from the analyst’s meeting with Steve Ballmer: “Ballmer told analysts there would be a new class of “ultra-thin” PCs” — or high-end netbooks –coming this year that would combine the light weight of netbooks with high-power and high-performance of traditional PCs. ‘When I talk to many of our customers, they say ‘I love the [...]

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Watch out, Mac-using analysts: Ballmer knows where you live

July 31, 2009

Via Joe Wilcox, comes this bit of Steve Ballmer’s speech to financial analysts: “We have low share, by the way, in the investor audience. I can see the Apple logos versus the PC logos. So we have more work to do, more work to do. Our share is lower in this audience than the average [...]

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