Microsoft held its annual shareholder meeting this morning at Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue to a sunnier outlook overall, except for shareholder questions about the popularity of Macs and iPhones.
Chief Executive Steve Ballmer looked backward and forward in his address:
"There's no doubt that fiscal year 2009 was one of the most" [...]
The Microsoft Alumni Foundation awarded its first "Integral Fellows" awards to three nonprofits started by company alumni.
Each receives a $25,000 grant "as well as access to the talents and skills of alumni to help support their ongoing efforts."
Winners include Patrick Awuah, founder of Ashesi University in Ghana; Trish [...]
I will be livetweeting the Microsoft shareholders meeting at 8 a.m. today. They are meeting at Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue. You can follow me in the right corner of the Pri0 blog or at www.twitter.com/sharonpianchan.
[...]Apparently $30 was a magic number for some Microsoft stock holders, including a few longtime executives who cashed in stock options that are finally in the money.
Senior Vice President Bob Muglia flipped 922,422 shares that have been exercisable since February 2006.
Muglia bought them for $25.14 and sold them today and [...]
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Deputy General Counsel Tom Burt just happens to commute in Roadster No. 203 and volunteered his ride for a day.
Burt filed the details in a' [...]
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This is a little spooky: The National Security Agency worked with Microsoft to "enhance" the security of Windows 7.
From Computerworld's report:
"Working in partnership with Microsoft and elements of the Department of Defense, NSA leveraged our unique expertise and operational knowledge of system threats and vulnerabilities to enhance Microsoft's operating" [...]
Google is apparently trying to steal some thunder from Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference this week by releasing more details of its Chrome operating system.
So far the Chrome OS has been mostly FUD since it was announced in July but that may change at a Thursday press event where [...]
LOS ANGELES -- Four months after releasing Silverlight 3, Microsoft is making Silverlight 4 available for beta testing. You can find it here.
Silverlight is multimedia user experience software that competes with Adobe Flash. For instance, Silverlight is being used by to stream the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games online, [...]
LOS ANGELES -- Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect, talked up cloud computing this morning in his opening keynote at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference this morning.
Ozzie announced that the Microsoft cloud, Windows Azure, will light up for customers on Jan. 1. The first month will be free and the [...]
LOS ANGELES -- Windows President Steve Sinofsky gave some details on the development of the next version of Microsoft's Web browser, Internet Explorer 9.
He said the browser would be more interoperable, and its performance would be improved from IE 8. The development team has been working on the new [...]
LOS ANGELES -- I will be livetweeting today's keynote featuring Windows President Steve Sinofsky at 8:30 a.m. You can either look in the top right corner of the Microsoft Pri0 blog for the Twitter feed, or you can follow me on Twitter at www.twitter.com/sharonpianchan/.
Other speakers at the second-day [...]
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You can't say "some people have all the luck" when you see Paul Allen's mansion on the shore of Mercer Island, his airplanes, superyachts and vast land holdings in Seattle.
The son of a Seattle librarian became one of the richest people in the world when he and childhood pal Bill' [...]
In case you didn't see it Monday, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Here is the story that my colleague Brier Dudley wrote.
And here is the full e-mail that Paul Allen's sister Jody released to the public:
To employees of Vulcan and affiliates:
I want to let' [...]
LOS ANGELES -- I am back in my hometown of Los Angeles for Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference. I will be livetweeting the 8:30 a.m. keynotes today featuring Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie and Bob Muglia, head of the Server and Tools division.
I'm expecting an announcement about Microsoft Azure, the' [...]
