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Ballmer Still Thinks it is OK to Kill Competition
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| After years of scrutiny by anti-
| competition police, Ballmer still doesnât
| get it:
|
| âWhen Mossberg asked why Microsoft had
| drastically lowered its price of
| Windows XP in reaction to netbook
| vendors having initially shipped units
| with Linux, Ballmer retreated by
| asking, âWhy should I give someone
| else an opportunity?â.â
|
| Itâs the law, Steve. Monopolies are
| required to give competitors
| opportunities.
|
| This exchange also answers the question
| why GNU/Linux has not taken a larger share
| of the desktop OS market.
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http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/06/04/ballmer-still-thinks-it-is-ok-to-kill-competition/
Microsoft Discovers That Bribing People To Use Its Search Engine Didn't Work
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| We recently had a discussion about the
| role of money as an incentive and how it
| often doesn't work the way people think it
| should (i.e., money often provides
| negative incentive -- the opposite of what
| you would think). I'm actually working on
| another post about that topic that I'll
| hopefully finish later today, but here's a
| quick one demonstrating that point in
| action.
|
| Way back in 2005, Bill Gates suggested
| that in the end, Microsoft would be able
| to beat Google because it had a secret
| weapon: it could bribe users to use
| Microsoft instead of Google, by offering
| them a cut of the advertising revenue.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100604/1203299691.shtml
A Farewell to Bing cashback
http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/search/archive/2010/06/04/a-farewell-to-bing-cashback.aspx
Microsoft kills Bing Cashback
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20006842-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Microsoft kills Bing cashback
http://techdirt.com/articles/20100603/0859019675.shtml
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