23 May 2008
Microsoft is to launch a global brand, called Microsoft Advertising, to house all its ad
27 Aug 2008
| by Anne Cassidy
LONDON - Chris Dobson, Microsoft's UK commercial head, is leaving the internet giant to join BBC.... The move will make Chris Ward, Microsoft UK's commercial director, the company's leading commercial representative. Dobson, who has been with Microsoft for seven years, is vice-president of Microsoft UK Online Services Group, overseeing content production, sales and marketing of Microsoft's consumer online business ...
10 Sep 2008
| by Staff
LONDON - Microsoft's latest US TV spot, starring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld, has received a...The ad, by Microsoft's agency, Crispin, Porter Bogusky, features the founder ...
bloggers and advertising commentators. Computerworld blogger Preston Gralla asked: "Is Microsoft's Seinfeld spot the worst TV ad ever?" He said: "If this is Microsoft's response to the 'I'm a Mac' ads ...
10 Nov 2008
| by Ian Darby
, is quitting to join Microsoft....Highfield will take the new role of managing director and vice-president, consumer and online UK at Microsoft. Rob Henwood, the lead regulatory adviser at Kangaroo and former new business director of Channel ...
was director of new media and technology. Highfield's new role will involve bringing together Microsoft ...
15 Feb 2008
Yahoo! has a big fight on its hands to repel Microsoft, Alasdair Reid writes....For many observers, Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo! last
week was charged with all manner ...
of the workforce. Microsoft is another matter. After all, this is the company that was
easily vilified as a ...
been compounded by the
fact that, a short time after Microsoft made its hostile move, Google's
chief ...
10 Oct 2008
| by Ian Darby
LONDON - Microsoft is launching its new Windows products with a specially created UK ad campaign...Created by Microsoft's Miami-based agency Crispin Porter Bogusky, the UK campaign features a ...
Microsoft that featured Bill Gates alongside the comedian Jerry Seinfeld, which also attempted to show Microsoft connecting with real people. The TV activity will form part of Microsoft's largest-ever UK ...
11 Apr 2008
Yahoo! has attacked Microsoft after its chief executive, Steve Ballmer, wrote a letter...According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft threatened
to reduce the $44.6 billion (£22.5 billion) offer it
originally made in January and replace the Yahoo! board with its own
directors if it fails to agree terms. Yahoo! countered by accusing
Microsoft of "mischaracterising the nature of our ...
02 May 2008
Microsoft has reportedly re-opened talks with Yahoo! after the deadline it imposed on the search
29 Aug 2008
Microsoft has appointed Jeff Kelisky as its general manager of commercial search as part
15 Jul 2008
| by Staff
LONDON - Microsoft has launched a website that allows Windows Live users to create their own