machine, but microsoft fails to inspire investors. profits continue growing but the stock still trades about where it was a decade ago. we look at what it will take to boost the stock. >> tom: then, talking tough on trade to boost the u.s. economy. >> i want to see fair trade policies, and if they're not going to be fair, you cut it off or you tax the hell out of them. >> tom: coming up, our interview with real estate mogul donald trump. it's "nightly business report" for thursday, october 20. this is "nightly business report" with susie gharib and tom hudson. "nightly business report" is made possible by: this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt >> tom: good evening, everybody. susie gharib is off tonight. i'm joined by suzanne pratt in new york. it's solid sales for microsoft in the company's most recent quarter. >> suzanne: tom, firms are buying microsoft's office and server software, and that business offset weak consumer demand for p.c.s. mic

>> suzanne: it may be a cash machine, but microsoft fails to inspire investors. profits continue growing but the stock still trades about where it was a decade ago. we look at what it will take to boost the stock. >> tom: then, talking tough on trade to boost the u.s. economy. >> i want to see fair trade policies, and if they're not going to be fair, you cut it off or you tax the hell out of them. >> tom: coming up, our interview with real estate mogul donald trump. it's "nightly business report" for thursday, october 20. this is "nightly business report" with susie gharib and tom hudson. "nightly business report" is made possible by: this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt >> tom: good evening, everybody. susie gharib is off tonight. i'm joined by suzanne pratt in new york. it's solid sales for microsoft in the company's most recent quarter. >> suzanne: tom, firms are buying microsoft's office and server software, and that business offset weak consumer demand for p.c.s. mic

>> suzanne: it may be a cash machine, but microsoft fails to inspire investors. profits continue growing but the stock still trades about where it was a decade ago. we look at what it will take to boost the stock. >> tom: then, talking tough on trade to boost the u.s. economy. >> i want to see fair trade policies, and if they're not oring to be fair, you cut it off you tax the hell out of them. >> tom: coming up, our interview with real estate mogul donald trump. it's "nightly business report" for thursday, october 20. this is "nightly business report" with susie gharib and tom hudson. "nightly business report" is made possible by: this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt >> tom: good evening, everybody. susie gharib is off tonight. i'm joined by suzanne pratt in new york. it's solid sales for microsoft in the company's most recent quarter. >> suzanne: tom, firms are buying microsoft's office and server software, and that business offset weak consumer demand for p.c.s. micros

>> suzanne: it may be a cash machine, but microsoft fails to inspire investors. profits continue growing but the stock still trades about where it was a decade ago. we look at what it will take to boost the stock. >> tom: then, talking tough on trade to boost the u.s. economy. >> i want to see fair trade policies, and if they're not going to be fair, you cut it off or you tax the hell out of them. >> tom: coming up, our interview with real estate mogul donald trump. it's "nightly business report" for ursday, october 20. this is "nightly business report" with susie gharib and tom hudson. "nightly business report" is made possible by: this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt >> tom: good evening, everybody. susie gharib is off tonight. i'm joined by suzanne pratt in new york. it's solid sales for microsoft in the company's most recent quarter. >> suzanne: tom, firms are buying microsoft's office and server software, and that business offset weak consumer demand for p.c.s. micro

it has been a huge job creator at microsoft. but there is an important downstream economic expectation good packaging, transportation, yers, stock clerks, persons in the stores who sell it and the list goes on. beyond that, there are also avenues of innovation not yet even imagined that this revolutionary technology will open for others. kinnect is a game, but we have read articles where is being used in operating rooms by surgeons. the list of innovation is on and on. we are very passionate about it and we are passionate about the fact that it creates as a job creator in the u. economy. companies and developers can allies on the technology, whether through games or the technologies such as health care and robotics and more. as a country, we should be doing everything we can to make sure eas like this one bloom here in the united states. this means making sure that people like alex, who sits near the top of past company magazine as the creative people in business for 2011, are attracted to study in this country and bring their t

apples had this commitment, microsoft had this commit. you have to have commitment to backyard compatibility. you have to commit to never break anything. you load up windows vistand and you can run the original advice i qal from 30 years ago. so that is a long-term institutional commitment that takes a serious company to be able to do. and the oppounities, netscape was an applition that got built on that kind platform. the macintosh, the iphone, it's sort of a responsibility for the next set of vendors to do the same thing. >> rose: i just read this week where microsoft has an operating system that they, a mobi operating syste that they are now going to work with lg. >> other people will be doing that. >> they're doing a we a rethink. they've had a mobile strategy for years and windows mobile. they're doing a rethink because they've seen the iphone. >> i think if you look at e ipod it did a couple of things. there were mp 3 players galore before apple got in the business. but what he dids he came out with a great industrial design, very s

microsoft and put out a warning to public saying microsoft does not customers asking for money. >> as a senior we're vulnerable and trusting and i don't want this to happen to anyone eels thank you. >> experts tell us scam yarz are posing as representatives from a variety of companies not just microsoft. so if you get a call, don't cooperate. call directly instead. >> she was smart. >> she did. >> thank autos let's go back and update the forecast in this weird rain storm. >> yes. and we'll start with a time lapse view from our high definition east bay cram this afternoon looking at passing storm clouds moving east. isolated storms around the bay area. and maria r found a rainbow near woodside high school. and there is a live doppler 7 showing quiet conditions over the bay area. there are active storms around the hol lifter area. and there is little movement. tomorrow there is a chance of showers and sunshine. high temperatures on the cool side. and there is things going to warm up. here is the accu-weather forecast. and by wednesday, we'll have warm in all upper case letters. >> it's

. >>> microsoft is apparently making another run at yahoo. reuters reports the search engine is preparing to open up its financial books for potential buyers. microsoft last tried to buy yahoo with a $47.5 billion offer in 2008. microsoft executives believe adding yahoo would decimate rival aol. but some analysts think the merger is a bad fitted and question whether microsoft can manage such a high-tech deal. >>> president obama is making another pitch to republicans to get behind his jobs bill. he spoke from the white house today challenging republicans who don't support the bill to explain why not. and saying if congress failings to act, taxpayers may just run them out of town. he also endorsed a democratic proposal to pay for the program with a tax on millionaires. >> some see this as class warfare. i see it as a simple choice, we can either keep taxes exactly as they are for millionaires and billionaires with loopholes that leave them to have lower tax rates in some cases than plumbers and teachers, or we can put teacher and construction

but our decision to go to microsoft cloud solution was based on several factors. one of which being availability, reliability, and performance of microsoft, the availability to have the actual e-mail application hosted in the cloud, took that burden off of our staffing resources. we have limited resources in the city to manage our user base. the yearly staffing costs and staffing time and resources in managing the e-mail application on side and on premise -- on- site and on premise, and our staffing provisions due to city budget cuts and deficits and reductions in force each year, we were less able to maintain the quality of service from an e-mail support perspective. so we did not want to impinge or degrade the level of e-mail service or the quality of service we were providing the city and county, so we had to look for a solution that would allow us to maintain a quality of service, maintain the availability and reliability of e-mail in the city and county, and also to get us all on one single solution for the city and county. prior to our decision to move to th

. >> susie: it's official-- skype is now part of microsoft. the acquisition cost microsoft $8.5 billion-- the company's biggest deal ever. skype users made 207 billion minutes of voice and video calls last year. microsoft is counting on skype's popularity to help it catch up in some areas of technology and media. it's still unknown if skype will continue to offer is voice and video calls for free. >> tom: meantime, there's a buzz kill at google. the social messaging platform called buzz that was meant to rival twitter is getting the heave ho. users didn't seems to like the service and the only buzz it really ever got was over privacy issue violations. google now is focusing its social networking efforts on plus a three-and-a-half month- old service that has been catching on quickly. >> tom: it was less than two weeks ago the stock market dipped into bear market territory from its spring time high. now we've seen the longest weekly winning streak in six months. tonight's market monitor is robert stovall, managing director and strategist at wood

microsoft, says i will miss steve immensely. he says it was an insanely great honor to know steve jobs. the jobs family has issued a statement saying that steve died peacefully today, surrounded by his family. steve jobs leaves behind his wife, four children, and more than 48,000 apple employees. tonight sarah palin says she has made up her mind. she told a radio interviewer that she will not enter the race for the republican nomination for president. political correspondent jan crawford is in washington with more. >> reporter: well, scott, after months and months of teasing people with would she run or would she not run, sarah palin has just released a statement. let me read it for it. after much prayer and serious consideration i have decided i will not be seeking the 2012 g.o.p. nomination. she goes onto say as always my family comes first, she gave it a great deal of thought, and then she says in the statement that she believes she could, quote, be more

targeted. >> but google has not been microsoft and never will be microsoft. we just run under a different set of principles. it's true that because of the role google plays, we're much more careful with that. my view is as long as you're on the side of the customer, and remember, our products are mostly free, so it's hard to complain about pricing, i think we'll be just fine. >> that's a great point, the products are free. >> we could pay you to use it. >> such an important point. let me ask you about some of the products and what the strategy is. you recently acquired motorola ability. is this about patents? talk about the assessment. >> i think it's really about both. if you look at motorola, it's a fantastic company. we looked at the future products they have, and it's really amazing. we're very happy with their road map and what they're doing. there's some understanding of the hardware, better software and so forth. there is also this patent portfolio which is second to none, and we face significant patent challenges from people who want to stop our produ

economy but first headlines on microsoft and yahoo. for those stories and more let's go to emily chang with today's after the bell report. >> this earnings parade continued. there two big businesses, windows and office, and office and server software may up for it. beating an qlaiftz reporting sales rose 7.3% in the first quarter thanks to corporate customers. to find this, microsoft failed to become a leader in smart phones and tab blets and now rushing to finish the new version of window that's can run on tab blets as pc shipments grow morely. microsoft shares have been on a roller coaster but some investors insist it's still a goodbye. and now, let's talk yahoo. bloomberg news reported it shurd be worth $18 to $21 a share. investors told bloomberg television the range demandz pendz on how a deal is structured. the company owns more than 5.3 million shares ofa noo. that interview he mentioned yahoo has significant assets. a day after sources says they're considering bids at 16ses today $18 a share. and in a conference in asia yahoo c

today's rumor was that microsoft was interested in the company again. 3.5 years ago, yahoo rejected microsoft's buyout efforts. but after the close, the "wall street journal" reported microsoft is not interested in yahoo these days. buyout rumors also were swirling around research in motion. shares popped 12% today on heavy volume and are up more than 20% from its most recent low, hit earlier this week. close to $20 per share. reuters describes the buyout rumors as vague. shares did touch a six-year low when they dropped below $20 this week. of course, research in motion's troubles stem from a lot more competition in the smartphone market. in august, the company came in third in market share, behind number one google and its android phones and apple's iphones at number two. speaking of the iphone, omnivision continued to find buyers. this company makes semiconductors for camera phones, and some think it may be involved in the newest iphone, introduced yesterday. leading today's buying interest. and finally, an earnings beat and miss. seed and farm chemical company monsanto rallied 5% after a sm

targeted. >> but google has not been microsoft andever will be microsoft. we just run under a different set of principles. it's true that because of the role google plays, we're much more careful with that. my view is as long as you're on the side of the customer, and remember, our products are mostly free, so it's hard to complain a about pricing, i thi we'll be just fine. >> that's a great point, the products are free. >> we could pay you t to use it. >> such an importantpoint. let me ask you about some of the products and what the stragy is. you recently acquired motorola ability. is this s about patents? talk about the assessment. >> i think it's reallyy about both. if you look at motorola, it's a fantastic company. we looked at the future products they have, and it's really amazing. we're very happy with their road map and what they're doing. there's some understanding of the hardware, better software and so forth. there is alsothis patent portfolio which isis second to none, a we face significant patent challenges from people who wanto stop our produc

microsoft chairman bill gates said the world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact steve has had. the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come.

this was his campaign stop yesterday at microsoft. let's start with probably the most affable human thing a candidate does at a stop like this. the opening flatter your audience joke as you step up to the podium. they all do this, right? but here is the mitt romney-con edition. >> i was the guy in charge of recruiting for a consulting firm called bane & company in the early 1980s. there was a young man we were trying to recruit to come to our company. his name was steve ballmer. i met with steve. he said he was thinking about the offer i made him but said he was thinking about forming a company called microsoft and trying to decide between the two. i told him it was very high risk to come to microsoft. when i saw him, he said, mitt, do you remember recruiting me? i said, no, i didn't remember us but had you joined us, you'd be worth a million or two now. so -- >> see what's funny about that as a joke is the punch line is based on fact that $1 million or $2 million is not that much money. you'd be worth a million or two now. ha, ha. th

i think my microsoft work prepared me well. i've had to learn a lot of new things. the delivery challenges in poor countries are quite different. the science is a little different. but the idea of backing great scientists, figuring out what the needs are, matching those two things up, being patient, you know, sometimes for more than a decade, that's what made microsoft work so well and now here with seeds and vaccines and many other tools we're trying to make breakthroughs. this time it's the poor who will get the most benefit. >> bill gates there with the gates foundation talking about the way forward for the g-20 on environmental issues. >>> let's turn to japan where a saga in the corporate world continues. of course, i'm talking about olympus. the day after the company's chairman and president sir yoshi stepped down. olympus has filed a company announcement disclosure to the tokyo stock exchange about a series of acquisitions that have put it under the spotlight to say the least. now it started almost two weeks ago. on friday, october 14th, the company's former c

eric's history, microsoft was a big scary company. he lived in the browser wars that had an ended too well in the skate which was trading. .. >> well, it seems she was able to navigate that and perhaps to microsoft that may have been a wise decision. i wanted to ask about something in the book that i did not know, which is google is one of the largest computer manufacturers in the world. this was fascinating to me. i had no idea. and when you explain why, i was like a horse. and i am thinking that may surprise people here as well. explain why it is google is one of the largest computer makers in the world. >> one of the things i've really wanted to do in the book is talk about the data centers and that's really one of the biggest secrets they are. i was lucky in a couple ways in learning about it. one was they were getting a little more open than they used to be. not open enough to save, stephen, come to a data center and explore it. as it turned out, doing it early story from "newsweek" icon to data centers when the releasing space i

from scamers, not microsoft. they put out a warn together public saying microsoft does not call customers asking for money to fix a problem. >> as a senior i feel that sometimes we are vulnerable because we are very trusting. i just tont want it to -- i just don't want it to happen to anyone else. >> they are posing from a variety of tech companies and not just microsoft. if you get a tech support call out of the blue don't cooperate. instead call your providers directly. i posed -- i posted links on how to protect yourself. 2k3w0* to abc7news.com. michael finney, 7 on your side. >>> well plagued by violence. one man is trying to make a difference. coming up what the police chief is doing to clean up oakland and his own police department. and wedding number three for paul mccartney. some of the star power that attended the wedding just ahead. >> hi, everyone, i'm meteorologist leigh glaser. a few clouds are moving overhead. we have seen a lot of things. we have seen showers and temperatures back into the 90s. a l

microsoft executives believe adding yahoo would beat its rival aol. but some analysts think the merge a bat fit and question whether microsoft can manage such a huge high-tech deal. >>> newly released e-mails show the energy department was getting ready to give fremont based solyndra a second government loan of more than $450 million, despite warnings from auditors about their financial troubles. the e-mails were released as part of the investigation into the original $535 million federal loan given to solyndra in september 2009. the e-mail shows the energy department only dropped the plans for a second loan after slipped are executives and investors warned the government of the company's financial problems. >>> the dr. conrad murray trial starts in an hour in los angeles. yesterday jurors heard more of an audio recording that prosecutors say proves michael jackson should not have been given such powerful drugs. coming up at 7:45, we'll go live to the los angeles courthouse for a look at what can be expected today. >>> bart plans to issue more than 20

of microsoft in redmond, washington. i took executive position in headquarters of microsoft. worked with great leaders lying bill gates, steve -- and jeff who run the gates foundati today. i learned a lot from them. andhen in 19-- in 2007, i wa offered the jobo be the c.e.o. of turkcell in turkey. and i got excited about that role and i moved to turkey. >> rose: why did you get excited about it? >> because i felt that it was a critical time for the company. and it was facing very tough competition from global players in its home market. and i felt that it was time for me t take all of my experience and learning in the technology business in the united states a worldwide experience, and take it to this turkish team, be the captain of the team and lead it. and i had been very, very happy. although it took some personal sacrifices. i was away from my family most of this time. but we had a very exciting journey. you know, we are now very proud that turkey has become number one in the world in mobile communication. according

it was a deal with microsoft which allowed apple to become the apple we know now. successful, all these products. at the same time, they always accused each other of stealing -- each other's ideas. and, in fact, they both kind of stole an idea from xerox park about the whole graphical user interface. so these were nasty things that people said about -- we all say things we regret. i think they had tremendous respect for each other. >> i think we learn about intimidation, these tactics -- >> do you think? >> yeah, to intimidate the people out there. so jobs was also quoted as saying about iphone's biggest rival, the android, saying i will spend my last dying breath if i need to, and spend every penny of apple's $40 billion in the bank to right this wrong. i am going to destroy android, because it's a stolen product, i'm willing to go thermo neek lear war on this. and he also said it was a rip off of the macintosh model. how easy was it to grab the market share that he got? >> well, see, this is the genius of apple and steve jobs. there were not a lot of original ide

three years ago, yahoo turned down a 30 billion 1/2 offer from microsoft. >>> michael jackson e rumors emerge. >>> an early case in the high sierra. you may be curious to know how much snow came overnight. >>> highlight showers for tomorrow and one direction temperatures will be heading this weekend. i am a face unclogger. i am a nose coach. i am a throat untickler. i am a human cough suppressant. and i am the sniffles worst nightmare. i am a target pharmacist. ask me about cold and flu remedies. who should get it? i really love jennifer. yeah, she's great. yeah. yeah. kyle's got that thick head of hair. and that should be rewarded. ok, moment of truth. on "three," say which kid you love the most. oh, fun, yeah. 1...2...3... jennifer. jennifer. whoa. wow. ha! she's so pretty. yeah. or, we give it to kyle. it's really all he's got. [ male announcer ] switch to at&t u-verse and record four shows all at the same time. now at the lowest price ever. at&t. >>> sarah palin says she'll be on the campaign trail in 2012, but not for herself. she will not be seeking her party's presidential nomin

have tried microsoft paint. it's the paint program included. it's usually good enough to draw a stick figure, and that's the extent of it. >> jason says he wanted to create fine art while using a simple consumer program like microsoft paint. >> the idea i had was to take something that people had experience with and put it with another thing, which was the mona lisa. it was two things that they could relate to and give it a value of its own. >> despite the limitations of microsoft paint, jason finds ways to add depth to his painting. >> i was using a drawing tablet, so that made it a lot easier, but i used a variety of the tools, and a lot of it is kind of an optical illusion. >> within about an hour and a half, jason finishes his painting, and since posting, jason's rendition of the mona lisa has gone viral with more than 11 million hits. jason says he hopes to continue to use the internet as a medium to showcase his work. >> the internet expands people's horizons, and it opens up the world to their self-expres