Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Microsoft: Search wins tied to sales compensation
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| At the Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, COO Kevin Turner said in a
>| keynote that field leaders for Microsoft partner teams in countries around
>| the world will be compensated more this year for making customer wins in key
>| product areas.
> `----
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070710/tc_infoworld/90085
>
> They already pay for anti-Linux propaganda and now /this/? The company is
> burning money because, as Kevin Turner also said yesterday, it's a "life or
> death" situation.
>
It probably is for them, now. They've managed to con a lot of people
with the OOXML push through ECMA (probably the only area where ECMA has
two standards for exactly the same thing), and they've found improbable
friends in keeping parts of the linux kernel proprietary and binary, but
those areas will probably just inconvenience a few millions of people,
rather than turn the tide.
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