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Microsoft Soft-Pedals Dialup

Posted by timothy on from the where-the-money-isn't dept.

twitter writes "The NYT reports Bill Gates surrender of dial-up Internet access. 'We stayed in the access business for a while, and then we decided it wasn't for us.' $314 million in advertising yielded $300 million in losses last year." Microsoft's dialup service isn't disappearing, but the company is scaling it back and ending the expensive marketing campaign. This leaves exactly how many big players in the dialup market? Dialup is still the only option in many places.

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  1. they own nothing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant


    Microsoft are like AOL all they do is rebrand other peoples infrastructure ie in the UK
    AOL broadband = NTL/BlueYonder
    so them getting out is a good thing, thats the trouble with the market at the moment too many middle men and monkeys

  2. Re:decentralization of acess is fine by me. by jhouserizer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...Exactly. Who cares if there are "no big players" in dialup? The small ones in my area seem to be competing the hell out of each other.