leaffig
Re:Nokia acquired by Microsoft
on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @02:38AM (#6319377)
>This already happened with attack on VP8 even without any acquisition. MS hand behind it was not even very hidden.
Nokia was really starving for money and wanted to monetize their patents, and saw VP8 as a threat. Instead of waiting for it to be popular and then pounce, they pre-emptively requested Google(which is rolling in dough) to license their patents. They did spend a lot on R&D in their heyday, they're not a garden variety patent troll. If a CEO didn't try to get their patents licensed while hurting badly for money, they would be called out for it.
I fail to see any MS hand in this, hidden or not. Do you have any references to back that up?
Re:Nokia acquired by Microsoft
on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @01:44AM (#6319209)
Nokia's board is the one that hired Elop away from Microsoft and was behind his every major decision. So I think the plans were set in motion at Nokia before Elop was even hired.
Read up this guy's profile, do you really think he would approve hiring Elop just like that without such an eventuality in sight?
Re:Nokia acquired by Microsoft
on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @01:07AM (#6319087)
According to Bloomberg TV, Elop is returning to Microsoft, and Siilasmaa will serve as Nokia's interim CEO.
My guess is that Elop will become MS CEO, and is not a bad choice. In his interviews, he comes across as someone really smart and eloquent. He is one of the few CEOs in the world with both enterprise and consumer experience that a future MS CEO badly needs.
Re:Nokia acquired by Microsoft
on Monday September 02, 2013 @11:48PM (#6318733)
I called this on Friday after looking at the stock market. Too bad I didn't bet too much money on it, but I still made a bunch :)
http://stocktwits.com/bluercloud/message/15522482
http://stocktwits.com/bluercloud/message/15522546
By the way, this looks like an acquihire for Elop being the next MSFT CEO.
Re:Google Hangouts goes HD
on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @04:42PM (#6292511)
I guess Microsoft's main concern is opening up another vector for patent lawsuits by shipping hundreds of millions of VP8 decoders. Google doesn't indemnify against VP8 infringements so why would Microsoft pick up the tab when they're already paying for H264?(Which they got sued over by Googorola btw).
Re:Now all Windows developers have been thrown under the bus
on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @03:50PM (#6285810)
The author is implying that if one loves throwing people under buses, they must necessarily love buses.
Which doesn't make any sense, like the rest of the article. Couldn't even finish reading it.
Re:Ballmer Departure From Microsoft Was More Sudden Than Portrayed
on Sunday August 25, 2013 @11:56PM (#6275109)
>As AllThingsD‘s John Paczkowski wrote on Friday: “Here’s one metric by which Ballmer will be judged harshly. On the last day of 1999, the day before he took over as CEO, Microsoft’s market capitalization was $600 billion
That fails to take into account, the crazy dotcom valuation days and the subsequent big crash in 2000. Not to say that Ballmer did great as a CEO but that's just poor reporting. Microsoft did have its great growth days, like Apple recently did before petering out, but it was back in the 80s.
Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months
on Friday August 23, 2013 @11:03AM (#6264018)
What social property did Microsoft push heavily like Google does G+?
Also MS was into search before Google was.
Re:The limits of Google’s openness
on Thursday August 15, 2013 @04:37PM (#6220424)
Curiously, Windows Phone is pretty much the only 'big' mobile platform where Google search is not the default.