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Who Will Join Microsoft in the Portal Wars?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the choosing-sides dept.

madman writes "In the light of the recent changes in the search war, like the Google/Dell partnership and eBay/Yahoo! alliance, Microsoft is facing a complicated question: Who are they going to ally with? Will they try to face the competition alone?"

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  1. Microsoft should use the X-Box model by thammoud · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Grow organically. Most takovers and and partnerships amongst large companies fail to realize their initial potential. MS should stop trying to shoe horn everything into the failed MSN model. Create a small team of talented people, give them some serious money and freedom and let them create. Do not impose Windows or MSN on them. Let them build the hardware, the software and the website. Do what apple does but with a much larger budget. I can use an IPOD without a Mac or having to go to apple.com (.mac).

  2. The writer of this article... by Mikachu · · Score: 4, Interesting

    obviously didn't read this.

  3. Microsoft doesn't partner with folks it assimilate by mwfolsom · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Folks:

    Anybody that partners with Microsoft is nuts -

    Who has ever done it and lived to tell the tale?

    M-