On Apr 16, 2:19 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Microsoft Urges Antitrust Officials to Scuttle DoubleClick Deal
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> | Microsoft, a veteran defendant of epic antitrust battles in the United
> | States and Europe, is urging antitrust officials to consider
> | scuttling Google's plan to buy DoubleClick, an online advertising
> | company.
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/technology/16softcnd.html/partner/r...http://tinyurl.com/2hmyke
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> It's interesting to see that Microsoft took the lead (that's the news).
> Hypocrisy. Microsoft's 'high moral grounds'...
>
> Related:
>
> Microsoft Befriends Google's Foes
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> | After a government- and monopoly-inspired period in which Microsoft had
> | to pretend to be a gentle force for global good, the company is being
> | forced to return to its ruthless roots. Ironically, it is doing this
> | in part by decrying the unfair practices of a competitor and
> | shamelessly sucking up to the Establishment.
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> http://www.forbes.com/2007/03/06/microsoft-google-blodget-tech-cx_hb_...http://tinyurl.com/3bewws
Right. Microsoft says we can't put so much of the advertising market
into the hands of one company. Of course it's ok for the desktop
market to be on one set of (dirty) hands. But the party line among
the trolls on cola is that Microsoft won that market by technical
excellence, and their lock on the market proves that their products
are what consumers want. So it's fun to see what happens when
Microsoft really has to compete on the basis of true technical
excellence (Google). Namely, they don't do so well.
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