__/ [ [H]omer ] on Friday 13 April 2007 16:01 \__
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
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>> | It's a delicious prospect: Microsoft impaling itself on the horns
>> | of a dilemma it has created for itself. Roll on Thursday.
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>> http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1956941,00.html
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> They'll never do it; they know it would finish them. Just the measures
> they've taken *so far* have caused them an epidemic loss of users and
> mindshare, if not actual paying "customers".
Yes, *paying* to eat the bait, just like Novell. Do you know that they have
just 'donated' to schools? They mention sums of money in a press release,
but these sums of money are only handed over in the form of Windows Vista
Ultimate Edition. As I said in Digg, this will lead to incompatibilities
(e.g. XPS, HD, the new default filesystem for CD-ROM burning). In effect,
this is about a 'network effect'. It's viral. They simply do a
stemming/rooting routine, under the disguise of good cause. Moreover, they
get good publicity for themselves /and/ for Vista.
They get the children 'kind of addicated', to use Gates' words.
Here are a couple of good and related stories:
Adobe targets school kids to get them hooked on software
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| Adobe is where the 'apps' are manufactured. These apps that have the
| power to make images appear before our children's eyes. "There were
| all these, like, stars, and they were rotating. It really captured
| my attention," said Nigel, 14, hardly more than a child, but with
| the vacant expression of a man who has spent hours looking at a
| screen. Nigel has now discovered he needs glasses.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38254
Microsoft: 'Financial incentives' for Live Search data
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| In an apparent attempt to boost its disappointing Web search market
| share, Microsoft is giving financial incentives to large enterprise
| customers whose employees use Microsoft's Live Search engine.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070316/tc_infoworld/86900
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