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Could Microsoft's Purchase of Yahoo! Give Google A Run for Their Money?

Feb 1, 2008 by Natalie

News outlets everywhere are buzzing with the unsolicited $44.6 billion cash and stock bid for Yahoo! stock Microsoft waged on February 1, 2008. Called "the next major milestone" for Microsoft by it's chief executive Steve Ballmer, the deal would pay Yahoo shareholders $31 a share, which represents a 62% premium from where Yahoo stock closed on Thursday. According ...

Tagged: Search engine, search engine optimization, online search business, Internet traffic, search engine giant, yahoo, microsoft, google, merger

Microsoft Drops It Like It's Hot

Oct 19, 2006 by Travis

Well, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7 Final today. It took me about 10 minutes to install it (and all of the required dependencies). So far, I'm pretty impressed (despite the fact it locked up when I started it for the first time). They borrowed quite a few pages from Firefox with tabbed browsing, a built-in RSS reader, and a search box by the address bar. ...

Tagged: microsoft, IE7, css

Internet Explorer 7 beta 3 released

Jun 30, 2006 by Travis

The people over at Microsoft have been working on a new version of Internet Explorer for the last year or two. When first hearing of IE7, all of us at Plexus breathed a sigh of relief and said "Finally!." Internet Explorer has been the thorn in every CSS developer's side since the dawn of stylesheets. IE has a couple of "bugs" that prevent it from displaying rendered...

Tagged: web browser, ie, microsoft, beta