Microsoft Preps for Big Non-Yahoo Announcement
Microsoft Preps for Big Non-Yahoo Announcement
by , 11:05 AM EST, February 21st, 2008
Microsoft is preparing to make what it calls a "significant company announcement" on Thursday morning. The press conference -- which Microsoft made sure to point out does not involve Yahoo acquisition information -- will include CEO Steve Ballmer, chief software architect Ray Ozzie, senior vice president of the Server and Tools Business Bob Muglia, and senior vice president and general counsel Brad Smith.
Several prior big announcements from Microsoft have been less than spectacular, including the Zune launch, the UMPC launch, and the Windows Vista launch.
The Redmond-based company isn't saying yet what will be discussed during the announcement.
Observer Comments
Thu Feb 21, 2008 2:34 pm Subject: Whoo-hoo another ipod killer,or a revolutionary new phone?
Thu Feb 21, 2008 7:56 pm Subject: They're scrapping windows alltogether and building a decent
They tried to do that with Longhorn/Vista. They got major feedback from their customers concerning backwards capability. The short of it was that they caved and "created" Vista. Vista is bad enough that they may be able to finally rebuild all of it on the . Net standards that they had wanted to do with Longhorn on a truly new kernel with all of the big brother features and security they promised at the turn of the century. Lest we mock them, Copland/Aqua/OS X took 10 years to be released and truly usable.
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