The last couple weeks have been filled with news on Microsoft. Microsoft attempts to acquire Yahoo! Microsoft invests $3 million in the development of healthcare applications. Microsoft gives away high-end software development tools to college students. Microsoft takes sides in the high-def DVD format war. Microsoft may partner with Netflix.
Microsoft was famously late to the Internet business, and has always lagged behind one online giant or another, whether it be Google, AOL, Yahoo!, take your pick. Now, as many people begin shifting their digital lives from their desktops to their homepages, online applications of the Google Docs variety have the potential to eat away at the supremacy of Office. Now, the European Union has slapped Microsoft with a $1.3 billion fine for noncompliance with a 2004 antitrust ruling.
