Microsoft Trumps Google, Yahoo! R&D Budgets

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday May 5, 2006 @01:55AM from the just-because-they-can dept.

Rob writes to mention a Computer Business Review Online article on Microsoft's commitment to out-spend Google and Yahoo! on innovation in the coming year. From the article: "Microsoft Corp will spend over $1bn on R&D just in its MSN unit, for the fiscal year starting in July, chief executive Steve Ballmer told an audience of would-be advertising customers. The money, part of the surprise spending package that recently gave Microsoft's share price its biggest single-day drop in five years, comes as the company struggles to catch up to Yahoo! Inc and Google Inc in the search and online advertising market."

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Pavlov's dog by Ingolfke · 2006-05-05 03:12 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Does anyone here every feel like you might be a human version of Pavlov's famous canine friend.

/. editor posts story: blah blah blah Microsoft blah.
/.er: foams at the mouth