leaffig

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by leaffig 13y ago
>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
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by leaffig 13y ago
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
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Nokia's press release with details of Microsoft acquisition(press.nokia.com)
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by leaffig 13y ago
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 a
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by leaffig 13y ago
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
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by leaffig 13y ago
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 the
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by leaffig 13y ago
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.
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by leaffig 13y ago
>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 t
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by leaffig 13y ago
What social property did Microsoft push heavily like Google does G+? Also MS was into search before Google was.
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by leaffig 13y ago
Curiously, Windows Phone is pretty much the only 'big' mobile platform where Google search is not the default.