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Microsoft Buyout of Ailing Sony Possible

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the possible-but-not-probable dept.

imashoe writes "BonaFideReviews has published an interesting article stating that a Microsoft buyout of Sony is quite possible sometime in the not-so-far future. From the article: 'All this added up, you have to ask yourself. Will the next Playstation you purchase post-PS3 run a Microsoft operating system and have backwards compatibility for PS1 PS2 PS3 Xbox and Xbox360? Putting your rabid love for Sony aside, this doesn't seem as far fetched as it once did, when the Sony name wasn't covered in enough red tape to fill the Grand Canyon.'"

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  1. Re:Fanboyism at its best by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 5, Informative

    why do we all have a "rabid hate" for Sony?

    DRM rootkits.

    Where have you been?

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  2. Re:Fanboyism at its best by wfberg · · Score: 5, Informative

    why do we all have a "rabid hate" for Sony?

    DRM rootkits.

    Also, The NeverEnding Format Wars (MemoryStick, BlueRay, etc.), PS3 Delays And High Price (Save Up Suckers), MP3 Players That Really Only Play ATRAC, Trying To Get Us To Buy MD Even Though We Told Them A Zillion Times That Tape Sucks Come On Philips Dumped Their Digital Tape Ages Ago, and last but not least Every Kind Of Hardware They Make Except For Playstation Is Being Made By Some Other Taiwanes Or Korean Company For Less Money And Higher Quality.

    They're a company in decline.

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  3. DON'T RTFA. by xigxag · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just don't. You will want your five minutes back. You were warned.

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  4. Re:Red Ink, not red tape. by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 4, Informative
    Red ink? What "english" is this?

    Here in England (you know, home of the English language) "Red tape" is a very common term for excessive bureaucratic processes that one sometimes has to go through. I've never heard the term "Red ink" being used to describe this.

    Refer to Wikipedia for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_tape

    And you claim to be a native English speaker? Well, I guess even England has ignorant and uneducated people.

    Red ink refers to the accounting practice of recording finacial losses in red ink.

    red ink
    n.
    A financial loss in business.
    The condition of showing a fiscal deficit: a firm drowning in red ink.

    [From the use of red ink to record debits and losses in financial records.]
    (Dictionary.com)


    Please see this article for an example of use of the term in English financial journalism.

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