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____/ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Friday 03 October 2008 17:38 : \____
> On Oct 3, 5:26 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> P&G Flirts with Google Apps and Scares the Bejesus Out of Microsoft
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>> | Does Google Apps pose a threat to Microsoft? No way, said Microsoft CEO
>> | Steve Ballmer in April 2007. He made his point clear to attendees at the
>> | USA Today CEO Forum: "[Google has] come out with what I might call—what's
>> | the politically correct way of saying it?—they've come out with some of
>> | the lowest functionality, lowest capability applications of all time."
>> |
>> | The room filled with laughter.
>> |
>> | Ballmer—for one—is not laughing now. That hubris and short-sightedness is
>> | coming back to haunt him.
>> |
>> | Microsoft is now taking the threat from Google quite seriously: In July
>> | 2008 COO Kevin Turner was dispatched to consumer-products giant Procter &
>> | Gamble to dissuade P&G from moving to Google Apps—and ditching Microsoft.
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>> http://advice.cio.com/thomas_wailgum/p_g_flirts_with_google_apps_and_...
>
> Is Turner bringing along suitcases full of cash? Free tickets to
> sporting events/Caribbean cruises/the inauguration/houses of ill
> repute? Or just blackjacks and tire irons?
>
> One way or another, P&G will come around.
Didn't GL show that he had been paid outrageous amounts of money despite
Microsoft's many failures, _Especially_ in his area? He quit recently.
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