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Microsoft Hopes Office Subscription Plan Will Counter Free Software
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| More than anything else, Microsoft is counting on Equipt's convenience factor
| to help it fend off competitive threats from Google, IBM, and other vendors
| that are offering free and open source desktop productivity suites that can
| be downloaded over the Internet and provide capabilities similar to Office.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/enterpriseapps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208802481
http://tinyurl.com/5se3b5
Similar examples below. They rely on ignorance, being the marketing company
that they are.
Related:
Microsoft offers small-business promotions
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| At its Small Business Summit Monday, Microsoft said that small
| businesses that take part in the WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage)
| program can receive a seven-day free trial of business credit-report
| checks and a six-month trial of Microsoft Office OneNote 2003.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070319/tc_infoworld/86978
Microsoft packs new Xbox 360 drive with junk
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| So with all that sort of junk, and advertising, installed it looks
| like users will need a new hard-drive, or spend a long time deleting.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38603
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
Microsoft Exec Admits That Company Benefits From Piracy
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| Jeff Raikes, head of the company's business group, said at a
| recent investor conference that while the company is against
| piracy, if you are going to pirate software, it hopes you pirate
| Microsoft software. He cited the above reasoning, noting that
| users of pirated Microsoft software are likely to purchase from
| the company later on.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20070312/165448.shtml
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