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...share in PC, server, and enterprise products used by large companies and governments. Microsoft is no longer considered a growth stock by Wall St., but it remains one of the most impressive corporate cash flow machines in the world. Microsoft's ongoing battle with Google (GOOG) over search and desktop software keeps it in the headlines regularly, and its quest to get control of Yahoo!'s (YHOO) search engine operation has gone on for a year. Microsoft had a short interest of 88.4 million shares as of April 15 down 10%. The company has almost 9 billion shares outstanding...
...user shouldn't have to come to facebook.com to use Facebook," says Ethan Beard, Facebook's director of platform marketing. Indeed, Facebook released its own Air client, called Facebook Desktop, as a kind of demonstration project. Adds Beard: "This is really just the beginning...
...against Harvard staff layoffs, the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) has just chosen a new battlefront for its latest guerilla attack—the desktop backgrounds on Lamont computers...
Members have apparently been changing the backgrounds to display the group’s slogan, “Greed is the new Crimson,” prompting one student worker at Lamont to gripe in an email, “Note the absence of ‘constantly resetting desktop backgrounds’ in the above list [of my job responsibilities]. While I know you enjoy creating more work opportunities for others, please spare me the courtesy.” Ouch. Sorry, SLAM, we’re sure you meant well...
...Harvard listening? Are the new desktop backgrounds working? We can’t judge yet whether or not SLAM’s tactics are actually helping workers, but at least students seem to be paying attention—kind of. Some were taken by the grammatical implications of the phrase “Greed is the new Crimson.” We were especially amused by this highly Harvardian response to a SLAM email...