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Memo Outlines Microsoft's Plans
conq wrote to mention a BusinessWeek article that covers some of Microsoft's upcoming web plans. From the article: "Live.com, Microsoft's customizable search-oriented portal, has more than 3 million users and the second-highest Net Promoter score -- a metric showing how many users would recommend the site to others -- of all MSN.com properties, writes Cole. That's good news, since the Live.com portal is the entry point for the first release of its Windows Live Search, the site through which Microsoft hopes to make the big bucks through paid search. Microsoft on Mar. 8 unveiled a slew of features aimed at letting users personalize the way they search the Web."
Even if its competition from Microsoft, it will be a good thing, as long as MS doesn't try it usual anti-trust crap
To try and beat Google, they will use any dirty trick (legal or not too blatantly illegal) they know (and they know a lot), like they've always done. It has more or less always worked, brought them where they are now, so why should they change their methods ?
I know it has already been said a thousand times, so let's make it a thousand and one : in the internal dictionary of this company, competitors = "people who must be bought or killed, in any order appropriate". Of course, this is more or less the general rule of every capitalistic entity. They've just been better at it than others in that department. Delivering safe and stable products is a second priority when you have, through other ways, stifled any serious competition.