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There was big news of partnership between Yahoo! and Microsoft. After the war of acquisition between Jerry Yang and Steve Ballmer, Yahoo got new woman CEO Carol Bartz and she finished remained problems that everyone minds. Most of news media wrote Yahoo! surrendered to Microsoft and Yahoo's stock was down. In addtion Jason Calacanis wrote Yahoo committed seppuku today. But, I think this partnership is very positive for sustainable survival of Yahoo! in long term. Yahoo has very strong properties as like mail, news, finance, entertainment and Flickr. If Microsoft acquired Yahoo in last year, I'm not sure whether ...

Do you want to know Microsoft web strategy in Korea? It's chance that The ReMIX Korea was held on June. 19th by Microsoft Korea. Remix is after event in the world sharing local experiences and results of Mix 2007 in Vegas of this year. Especially it was free for all IT industry people, so over 800 people was attended this event. This event is very similar format with MIX 07 to avoid formal type. It gave various program such as talk show, panel discussion and meetup of attendance with speaker The main agenda of this event was Microsoft Sliverlight too. Mr. ...

Today 72 hours conversations was started between Microsoft and Web in Las Vegas. Ray Ozzie, a keynote speaker of Mix07 turned over all of his best cards of "service softwares for user experience" to be prepared. I saw all of keynote and demonstrations via 500kb live streaming in my home in Korea, and felt fresh changes of Microsoft again after Microsoft Tech Summit in the last month. The most remarkable thing is that you could see both Windows and Mac OS X as well Firefox and Safari in almost of demonstrations. It seems that Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 Beta was very ...

Microsoft's Mix07 is coming soon. In last Microsoft Tech Summit, Loke Uei and Clark Butler showed a demonstration of QR code with Windows Mobile to guide conference rooms in Mix07. If you participate in Mix07, you've better learn it.