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____/ High Plains Thumper on Wednesday 09 Jun 2010 03:01 : \____
> chrisv wrote:
>> Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>> Roy Schestowitz pulled:
>>>> RonB on Sunday:
>>>>
>>>>> Bing Cashback gone at the end of July.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://tinyurl.com/275kqqe
>>>>>
>>>>> "After two years and multiple iterations, Bing Cashback is
>>>>> being shut down due to a lack of adoption."
>>>>
>>>> In its latest financial report, Microsoft declared losses of over
>>>> $700,000,000 in just _one quarter_ in this division.
>>>
>>> And the consumer is paying for it as they buy their sole-source
>>> vendor computers. Sickening.
>>
>> It's nice to have a monopoly. You can use the excessive profits
>> from the monoply to bully-into and take-over other markets.
>
> The bullying continues. We saw how the cost effective netbooks with
> Linux evaporated, now what is spec'd are more than netbooks and the cost
> exceeds what netbooks were going for.
>
> I saw a $99 ARM netbook with WinCE advertised, which means that M$ must
> be selling the OS at less cost than Linux, which means they must be
> either giving the operating system away for free or paying vendors to
> install WinCE. Perhaps that act is a portion of the $700M in one quarter.
>
> Yup, you are correct about taking over markets and inhibiting others.
Ballmer even bragged about it last week.
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~~ Best of wishes
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it very much, a NT system tends to remove itself from the network rather
promptly. -- ?, some CERT guy
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