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...took over flailing tech company Novell in 1982 and led it to dominance in networking software that allowed users to share files and printers; in Orem, Utah. Noorda coined the term "coopetition"-companies making products that work together. But he famously engaged in a long, ultimately fruitless battle with Microsoft-which in the 1990s devoured much of Novell's market share-that helped prompt his retirement...
Zillow has partnership agreements with Microsoft (for satellite imagery), Yahoo! (for links on the portal's real estate site) and Google (for ads). That could set the stage for a longer-term deal--or an acquisition--down the road. Meanwhile, to tame the chaos characteristic of early start-ups, Barton has set some limits. "We have foosball and air-hockey tables," he says, "but we don't have dogs running around...
Building a user base and ad revenues from calendars may prove difficult, since Microsoft, Yahoo!, Apple and various other start-ups have free calendar offerings that are improving. But 30 Boxes' founders know a lot about working from scratch. They created and sold photo destination Webshots twice--first to Excite@home (another dotcom casualty) for $82.5 million in stock in 1999 and then, after buying it back in 2002 for $2.4 million, they retooled it and resold it to CNET for $70 million in 2004. Will they try for the hat trick? "We could go into a larger organization...
...Microsoft designed Vista with high-resolution graphics and lots of animations, conveying a dynamic, in-motion feel. Every window has a translucent border. Alongside the main screen runs the Sidebar, a panel of little helper applications called gadgets, among them a news reader, a calculator and a currency converter. A key visual highlight is the window flipper: with a click, your open windows form a single-file line and parade past for your review...
Taking a page from the book of (Steve) Jobs, Microsoft has integrated programs for managing photos and making movies. The Windows Photo Gallery lets you add homemade tags ("Cats," "Billy's 21st") to images for quicker searches and will automatically resize collections of pictures and attach them to e-mails. Photo and movie applications are integrated so you can take foolproof steps to turn a set of photos into a movie, then burn it onto...