Baffled by the Office Ribbon?

The Lawyerist Blog has a post on how to customize your MS Office Ribbon. If you are using Office 2007 or 2010, this is worth reading.

Lexis for Microsoft Office - Check and Update Citation Formats

Documents To Go

Android app, Documents to Go is available through Amazon.com. You can view, edit, create and download files from Word, Excel, and Power Point documents. You can perform the same features except creating files from Google Docs. Additionally, you can view PDF files and is in sync with your desktop using the devices USB cable.

Microsoft-Yahoo deal off?

From law.com newswires:

Yahoo's Skadden Lawyers Engineer Rarely Used Tactic to Hold Off Microsoft
Zusha Elinson
05-06-2008

Pundits may credit Yahoo CEO Jerry
Yang's bullheadedness with scaring off Microsoft for the moment, but it appears that a tiny, yet timely, legal maneuver by Yahoo's lawyers also played a key role.

On Saturday, Microsoft walked away from its three-month pursuit of Yahoo after leaders of the Sunnyvale, Calif., Internet company wouldn't bite at a two-dollars-sweeter, $33-a-share offer. They apparently wanted $37 a share. (cont)

Yahoo! spurns Microsoft offer

Will they or won't they?

Yahoo Board to Spurn $44B Microsoft Bid
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE
AP Business Writer

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Yahoo Inc.'s board will reject Microsoft Corp.'s $44.6 billion takeover bid after concluding the unsolicited offer undervalues the slumping Internet pioneer, a person familiar with the situation said Saturday.

The decision could provoke a showdown between two of the world's most prominent technology companies with Internet search leader Google Inc. looming in the background. Leery of icrosoft expanding its turf on the Internet, Google already has offered to help Yahoo avert a takeover and urged antitrust regulators to take a hard look at the proposed deal. (cont.)

More on Microsoft-Yahoo!

DealBook edited by Andrew Ross Sorkin, from the New York Times. Collection of articles and blog engries on the propose Microsoft-Yahoo! deal.

Humor

From the ResearchBuzz blog: nine good things about the Microsoft/Yahoo deal. I think #1 is the funniest.

Proposed Microsoft bid for Yahoo!

New York Times article:

Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion for Yahoo
By MIGUEL HELFT
Published: February 1, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO — In a bold move to counter Google’s online pre-eminence, Microsoft said Friday that it had made an unsolicited offer to buy Yahoo for about $44.6 billion in a mix of cash and stock. (cont.)

Yahoo! Press release

Microsoft Press release. Note: Microsoft's press release also has a copy of the letter sent to Yahoo! with the proposal.