____/ Linonut on Sunday 20 January 2008 16:32 : \____
> * Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>> The hard side of Mister Softie
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Ah, Microsoft. Nothing gets the knickers of Silicon Valley startup guys
>>| more twisted than signs that the world?s largest software company is
>>| over-reaching again. The latest outrage? Some of my friends at the Valley?s
>>| best-known social networks and Web 2.0 companies are privately grousing
>>| that emissaries from Redmond are trying to ?strong-arm? (their term)
>>| startups into giving special treatment to Messenger, Microsoft?s (MSFT)
>>| answer to AIM and other instant messaging programs.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://techland.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/01/18/the-hard-side-of-mister-softie/
>>
>> Didn't they stand trial for such abuse of the OEMs? Same old business
>> (crime) at Microsoft. More examples of bullying below.
>
> I remember reading in some book where Microsoft used the same treatment
> to get people to use Word instead of other word-processors, in the early
> days.
>
> I like this quote:
>
> "This is a great example of why Google is the leader in the Net
> ecosystem and Microsoft is not," an angry entrepreneur (who does
> not work for Google) told me. "Microsoft is the
> anti-data-portability company."
Yes, it's their business strategy (I can fetch some embarrassing Gates quotes,
as in Pearls of stupidity/vanity). Schmidt has explicitly advised against it
in a seminar last year. Google cash in on goodwill, not handcuffs.
--
~~ Best of wishes
Roy S. Schestowitz | Windows: slippery when dry. You have been warned.
http://Schestowitz.com | GNU/Linux | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
Mem: 515500k total, 412088k used, 103412k free, 1432k buffers
http://iuron.com - next generation of search paradigms
|
|
