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Kevin Johnson out as Microsoft rearranges the online deck chairs
Up until today Kevin John was the president of Microsoft’s Platforms & Services Division (PSD) which develops Windows and Microsoft’s online properties including Windows Live and MSN. Now Kevin...
View ArticleMicrosoft postscript to second round of Microsoft-Yahoo acquisition talks
Apparently feeling a bit bedeviled in the coverage of the collapse of the second round of Yahoo acquisition talks, Microsoft revealed the details of their proposed "alternative transaction" via a memo...
View ArticleMicrosoft shuffles mobile, online, and marketing execs
Microsoft today made an omnibus executive rearrangement announcement covering a variety of Corporate and Senior Vice Presidents. Here are the novel aspects from my perspective: Andy Lees, senior vice...
View ArticleaQuantive’s McAndrews takes over Microsoft Web advertising
Last week, the aQuantive shareholders voted their approval of the company’s acquisition by Microsoft (as well they might since the offer was roughly twice aQuantive’s market cap). Today, Microsoft...
View ArticleMicrosoft Financial Analyst Meeting 2007 Wrap-up
In my posts yesterday on the Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting 2007, I focused on the concrete announcements and eschewed the high level pronouncements because frankly I was hard pressed to be...
View ArticleMicrosoft acquires Internet ad firm aQuantive
Just yesterday I was bemoaning the fact that Microsoft kept getting left at the altar in the Internet ad business consolidation that’s currently going on, but all that changed today as Microsoft raided...
View ArticleMicrosoft joins the Anti-YouTube Network
NBC Universal and News Corp. Announce Deal with Internet Leaders AOL, MSN, MySpace And Yahoo! to Create a Premium Online Video Site with Unprecedented Reach: News Corporation and NBC Universal will...
View ArticleNadella gets Microsoft ad and search development hot seat
Earlier this month it was revealed that Blake Irving, Microsoft’s Windows Live Development leader, and Christopher Payne, head of development for Windows Live Search, were leaving the company. Today,...
View ArticleMicrosoft reorganizes Windows marketing
Windows Vista has shipped, Jim Allchin has retired, and Windows marketing is still laughable. Sounds like a perfect time for Kevin Johnson, now the sole president of Microsoft’s Platform and Services...
View ArticleMicrosoft Financial Analyst Meeting recap
Below are some selected highlights from yesterday’s Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting 2006. As I mentioned previously, the list of speakers with copies of their presentations, and transcripts and/or...
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