News

      Well in the absence of any other article I'll just fill you in on a few things that caught my attention lately.

      First of all on the Microsoft - Yahoo deal.
 
    As you all know a few days ago Microsoft put up an unsolicited bid of 44 billion $ for Yahoo. They tried to do this one or two years ago and they got a very big NO. The answer was exactly the same this time, not to mention all the oposition towards the merger from outside parties. Without any other bid, MS may still argue that their price is fair, and will probably try to put pressure on Yahoo executives into negotiating, even if that will eventually mean reaching a higher strike point than iniatially thought.
    Yahoo's response to the unsolicited bid was to apparently restart negotions for a merger between them and AOL. This was quoted from London-based Times newspaper which also mentioned Google as another possible partner for  future colaboration with Yahoo.
 Right now most of us will just have to wait to see how this whole thing turns out.

      Second thing in the news: Vista Service Pack 1.
    It's done, it's ready but you're not going to get it any time soon.  At least that was the way Mike Nash from MS first explained it to us.
    Vista SP1 was released to manufacturing on the 4th of February but a full implementation of it was scheduled for mid April. The reasons for this were quite confusing and weird... Microsoft- style.  First Mike said that there were still some issues with certain drivers that would malfunction once the update to SP1 was complete. And so there was this 1st thing to solve.
    Then they said that the whole point was a great Vista experience and that everyone should receive the sp at the same time, and because mid April is when it will be in stores that was the release date on Windows Update too.
    And now , I believe MS must have reconsidered after the negative response because the SP1 is already available on both MSDN and TechNet for subscribers to download. And almost all the prerequisites for the sp were put up on Windows Update in preparation for the release which was set for mid-March.  So in just 3 weeks most of us will have it installed. Now for exact 
info on what the sp will bring
you can check around on microsoft.com. Be sure I'll do an article about this when the time comes.

 Well that was is , time's up. Stay tuned the next article is due soon.
    Cheers, Geeky.