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Microsoft Testing Its Own 'Google Base'
sheasie! writes "eWeek is reporting that Microsoft is readying an online marketplace, code-named Fremont, which is apparently in response to a similar feature that rival Google Inc. introduced a few weeks ago." From the article: "The software giant will enhance the Fremont listings with localized maps, and make them available through Microsoft's newly revamped Internet portal, now known as Live.com, according to the company."
you can get to any thing from www.google.com.... trust me just google it... you'll see
They just copy good ideas (TM).
I think therefore I am... a Linux geek.
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That bunch of criminals who once held the defacto monopoly on desktop OS's and office productivity? I thought people got wise to those losers in the first decade of the 21st century?
Oh damn, I just blew my cover again. The temporal overlords are probably going to send me to the 23rd century this time. Bastards!
all your base are belong to MS :/
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Today a leaked Microsoft memo confirms that aiming to become a market leader in the google field, is now the IT giants number one priority. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates was quoted as saying "When someone wants to know something, and someone else says, just google the internet for it, we want the first address they think of to be search.msn.com". Analysts predict that this heavy investment in the field of web googling will pay big dividends for the company. Furthermore should the company achieve its targets, Microsoft's history of dominating other industries might mean that in the future, when you are confronted with facts that don't seem quite right, blind ignorance, or a compulsive drive to outperform your rivals in meaningless fact gathering activities, your first instinct will be to "just Microsoft it".
With Microsoft copying Google's every single move, it makes me wish that Google would go out of business and join a monastary. Balmer's already got the haircut and everything...
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Let's call it "Freebase"
If google = has it /. for an alternative
then use it
else
ask
They fitted George Orwell's coffin with rollers so he could turn over more easily years ago.
Microsoft seems to be blindly copying whatever is coming out of Google these days.
With that kind of attitude, your resume must be pretty weak:
"I copied a bunch of ideas and software from others in hopes of looking bright".
You should "MicroSofterize" yourself. Then your resume can read:
"I developed and patented innovative software systems for the betterment of mankind".
Fremont is just the beta name, Boogle or Bill's List will be the new name.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
R&D here stands for "Rape and Destroy"?
Microsoft have always simply followed the market.
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Wait for me, I am the leader!
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