A Giant Bid That Shows How Tired the Giant Is
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| Today, Microsoft lacks both the weaponry and the nimbleness to compete with
| Google. Its operating system monopoly gives it no advantages in this battle.
| People can use Microsoft’s operating system and browser to get to the
| Internet — and to Google — or they can use Apple’s. It truly doesn’t matter.
| Meanwhile, with every new Internet fad, like the current frenzy over social
| networking, Microsoft is invariably caught flat-footed and has to race to
| just get a foot in the game. But that’s always the way it is when companies
| get big — and it is why real innovation always comes from small companies
| that don’t have a predetermined mind-set, or monopoly profits to protect.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/technology/02nocera.html?em&ex=1202101200&en=8bc93ec790163c2f&ei=5087%0A
http://tinyurl.com/2oc4mb
Google balks at Microsoft bid for Yahoo
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| Internet giant Google said Sunday it finds "troubling" Microsoft's
| multi-billion-dollar bid to acquire rival Yahoo and urged US and
| international regulators to strenuously vet the proposed deal.
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http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iwHLYMPrVtYxO6sPuJ6PDsUaOdGA
Cartoon:
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080203
Recent:
Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Faces Competition Scrutiny
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| Microsoft's audacious $44.6bn bid for Yahoo! could fall foul of European
| competition law, according to a leading competition consultancy.
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=6D714A80-16E9-4F25-94B0-B87519A3F182
With Yahoo, Microsoft faces antitrust fight once again
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| Microsoft's proposed $44.6 billion purchase of Yahoo could subject the
| software giant to the kind of critical antitrust scrutiny from Washington it
| hasn't experienced in nearly a decade.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9862973-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Microsoft funding bankrupt Live Search experiment with porn spam
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| Dear reader, please tell me: what do you think of a search engine that steals
| (bandwidth and AdSense revenue), lies, spams away, and is not clever enough
| to stop their criminal activities when they’re caught?
|
| Recently a Live Search rep whined in an interview because so many robots.txt
| files out there block their crawler...
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http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/microsoft-live-search-the-downfall-of-a-tiny-search-engine/
Microsoft’s Club Live fiasco
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| People were using the macro on more than 3 games at a time, on more than 2
| accounts at a time, why Microsoft didn’t pick up on the fact that in the
| first few days some people had accumulated enough for 3 Zunes each is beyond
| us. Some were lucky, others, not so much.
|
| [...]
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| So far no one has been banned from using their accounts, which they needed to
| sign up, probably because they did not break any laws, or probably because
| Microsoft didn’t want that hassle and liked their new found traffic.
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http://www.blogthe.net/2007/07/16/microsofts-club-live-fiasco/
Bots Helped To Boost Microsoft Live Search Gains
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| In a blog post, Compete analyst Steve Willis attributed Microsoft's
| search gains to prizes awarded to users participating in Live Search
| Club, which features games that post queries to Microsoft's search
| engine.
|
| [...]
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| Microsoft is essentially being DDoSed by thousands of people hundreds
| of times per minute, but they are mistaking this rise in traffic for
| people actually using Live Search."
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201001092
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