It is Jason Hermitage's job to convince enterprise IT folks that Windows Server 2008 is an eye-popping operating system and that they should start planning their migrations now. But what are the features that Hermitage, Director of Windows Server Marketing, uses to win over IT folks opinion? That was the crux of the conversation Hermatage had with Microsoft Subnet in a recent online as part of this blog's 
Yahoo investor Mithras Capital LP has proposed that Yahoo sell itself to Microsoft for $22/share. While that price is far lower than the $33/share Microsoft had at one time offered for Yahoo, it does represent a premium over the $12.66/share that was Yahoo's price as of close of trading Thursday. Microsoft has said it is no longer interested in Yahoo but investors continue to hold out hope that Microsoft will change its mind. 
Much is said about how Google is attacking Microsoft in its cash-cow, Office applications. But another side to the same story is that some 97 percent of Google's revenue comes from ads and its stock has dropped about 50 percent so far this year, reports Bloomberg.com. Investors realize that the search giant needs to diversify if it is to continue on its meteoric rise in power. (To be fair, many think Google's stock is still overvalued at over $300/share, even if it is no longer trading at the astounding rate of $600/share.) Google needs its enterprise IT apps to be successful, and it is winning accounts, but Microsoft Office is hardly drying up in the wind. 
We've selected the winner of September training giveaway from Microsoft Subnet and partner 
AdGooroo said Microsoft LiveSearch has grown its active advertiser base by almost 32% in one year. "During Q3, we measured a 19.3% increase in active first page advertisers, the biggest quarterly increase since we began measuring advertising activity in April 2007," 
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5 Things Blackberry Storm Got Right The iPhone Didn't
by Mitchell Ashley
Welcome Blackberry Storm - we've been waiting. It's no secret I think the Apple iPhone is mostly iCandy and benefits more from Apple "cool" rather than real substance as a fully useful SmartPhone. It's an iPod with a bad phone, a bad phone network, and poorly thought out email app slapped on it. I call it the iPlod (and sometimes the iNewton.) And it has Apple designing it, which means users get nice iCandy but fundamentals are lacking or are poorly implemented. But,...
