The Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week
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| 3. Mister Hard Sell
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| One game that hasn't changed is the one in which Microsoft
| airbrushes past pitfalls into great leaps forward.
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| It took the company five long years to bring out Vista, but
| Thursday's announcement speaks only of the "Most Significant
| Product Launch in Microsoft's History." Similarly, having been
| criticized as slow to embrace the Internet, Microsoft now
| claims to have more or less invented the thing.
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| "TCP/IP in Windows 95 helped pave the way for the popularization
| of the Internet," the company claims. "Wireless capabilities in
| Windows XP made mobile computing commonplace."
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| Not half as commonplace as Microsoft hype, though.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/weekend/dumbest1202_3.html
Didn't they _steal_ the code for a TCP/IP stack?
You Blew It, Amazon!
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| A feeding frenzy was obvious as consumers no doubt kept refreshing
| the Xbox page as 2 p.m. Eastern approached. Amazon must have loved
| the attention but this is a dangerous proposition when you're
| offering something that most visitors aren't going to get.
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| There is no free lunch. And for most consumers, there is no $100
| Xbox 360 either. As expected, Amazon's user forum has been livid
| with folks whining about not being one of the chosen thousand.
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http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2006/mft06120102.htm?source=eptyholnk303100&logvisit=y&npu=y
http://tinyurl.com/y6svuo
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