Tinkerbell and maintaining your mojo
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| But this is not what Microsoft did, and now, five or so years later,
| after countless missed opportunities, when Microsoft's Tinkerbell
| is at its weakest, needing its customers to clap for it just to
| keep it alive, they can't be bothered, much the same as Microsoft
| couldn't be bothered when Firefox rose from the ashes of Netscape,
| a product of the ether, to answer for Microsoft?s insouciance. Now
| it seems, given the lukewarm response to Vista, that Microsoft's
| Tinkerbell has, much like its mojo, died.
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http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/02/13/tinkerbell-and-maintaining-your-mojo/
Microsoft Wages Copyright War Against Google
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| Not everyone at Microsoft is clamoring to echo Rubin's battle cry. At
| least one company executive, Don Dodge, a director of business
| development, criticized Rubin's speech on his blog. "Really dumb move!
| What are these Microsoft lawyers thinking? Even if they are right,
| which is debatable, what reaction do they expect from the public at
| large?" he said.
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| As the dark horse in the online rat race, Microsoft's aggressive
| attack against Google did not surprise analysts. "I think theyr'e
| trying to get the companies on a level playing," Robert Toomey,
| senior vice president of Seattle-based investment firm E.K. Riley
| Advisors, said. For the last six years, Microsoft has been embroiled
| in anti-trust lawsuits and sluggish sales. By chastising Google,
| Microsoft is trying to differentiate itself from its opponent
| and position itself on a higher, moral ground.
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http://www.forbes.com/markets/2007/03/06/microsoft-google-spat-markets-equity-cx_er_0306marketsequity22.html
http://tinyurl.com/ynra8j
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