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Microsoft Looking to Sell Slate Magazine

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the slow-news-sunday dept.

SeaDour writes "Wired News is reporting that Microsoft is in early discussions with five or six media companies over a potential sale of MSN's online magazine Slate. This comes mere weeks after Slate recommended Firefox over Internet Explorer."

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  1. Cool, I'll buy it... by JessLeah · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...err .... Microsoft does take Monopoly money, right?

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    1. Re:Cool, I'll buy it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      People still buy stuff from Microsoft? Just search Kazaa for "SLATE_FULL_VERSION_(WITH_KEYGEN).RAR".

  2. Re:Microsoft Sell Something ? by the+unbeliever · · Score: 4, Funny

    I read Slate when it's linked from /.

    That's about it thought ;(

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  3. Slate Magazine? by PetoskeyGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't that where Fred Flintstone got his news?

  4. Too funny... by Saeger · · Score: 4, Funny
    I read the /. headline and immediately thought to myself, "I'm going to be the first to post a funny conspiracy theory about Microsoft punishing Slate for not towing the corporate line when they published that Pro-FireFox article a little while back." Then I read the /. summary blurb and see that the conspiracy theory's already there! :-)

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  5. Re:A better bottom line by MesiahTaz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's not forget that Slate does not really fit their business model. They're only into something if they can achieve total dominance.

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  6. MS break-up strategy by tverbeek · · Score: 4, Funny
    This comes mere weeks after Slate recommended Firefox over Internet Explorer.

    Now, if we can just get the folks in the Office division to start recommending other operating systems over Windows, we could finally get that part of the business sold/spun off to a separate company... just like the judge wanted.

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