Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Software Notebook: Microsoft in buying mood
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> Spending spree takes aim at smaller companies
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> | Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer was quick to reply when recently
> | asked why the company wasn't pursuing acquisitions more aggressively.
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> | "We are buying more companies than we have ever bought," Ballmer said
> | in response to the question at Microsoft Corp.'s annual meeting with
> | financial analysts.
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> http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/281937_software21.html
Some of the items MS are buying are products that any team of programmers
could come up with. It makes you wonder just how bad the situation is in MS
as far as programmers and software design teams are concerned.
Buying a company that has written a blog site, another that has written a
picture browser, others on the list look like fairly easy jobs for a
programming team.
There is something seriously wrong with MS if they can't put together
programming teams capable of creating such simple software.
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