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Well, I seriously doubt a Microsoft astroturfing shill would expose insider trading before the acquisition, which would potentially result in MS/Nokia employees getting penalized. …

That doesn't make any sense. Microsoft pays more for H.264 licenses than what it gets. Shipping VP8 with Windows will only open them to more patent lawsuits since Google doesn't in…

>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…

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. R…

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 hi…

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 …

>and they also provide a binary blob with Google's stuff as an option, if you want to install it. If they're doing that, then that's illegal and committing copyright infringement. …

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 infringemen…

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 fi…

>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…

What social property did Microsoft push heavily like Google does G+? Also MS was into search before Google was.

>not serving ads on purpose. They couldn't include the ads because the YouTube API did not give them access to show ads. They did, however, include a download video option, on purp…

Curiously, Windows Phone is pretty much the only 'big' mobile platform where Google search is not the default.