Logitech denies Microsoft takeover speculation again
'an operation without sense'
Monday, 10 March 2008, 09:09
MARKET-LEADING MOUSE MAKER Logitech has denied it is the subject of a takeover bid from its number one rival, Microsoft. Logitech's chairman Guerrino De Luca told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera yesterday that it would be "an operation without sense".
In January, when analysts dismissed rumours of an $8 billion takeover bid, Logitech director Daniel Borel, the company's largest shareholder, said he saw no reason to sell his stake, adding that without competition Logitech would 'lose the great pressure to innovate' and that there would inevitably be problems with antitrust authorities as the two companies would have an effective global monopoly in mice and keyboards. µ
L'Inq
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Microsoft and Logitech hardware was historically made on the same production lines anyway...
MS is like a the government, a cancer that want to take over everything. I am going out and buying a couple extra RF Logitech cordless mice (The work great) just in case freaking MS buys them then closes them down in an attempt to force their lame stuff upon us.
As MS says, "Resistance is futile."
As good as Logitech's hardware is, their software is simply terrible. I don't think even Microsoft could make their mouse driver package weigh in at over 50 MB like Logitech's does, and I prefer the Enhanced Pointer Precision algorithm Intellipoint employs over the inconsistent performance of Logitech's SetPoint.
Logitech have recently purchased slimdevices, so now own the rights to those fantastic little media streamers, that work very well with linux and are in fact based on it.

If MS were to buy logitech, you know for sure those products would die a sad death :(