Who Will Join Microsoft in the Portal Wars?

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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"Who are they going to ally with?"

[talkingpaperclip]

"Who are they going to ally with?"

The dark side, obviously.

Microsoft should use the X-Box model

[thammoud]

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).

Been there, done that

[GigsVT]

Doesn't anyonre remember the last portal wars?

They were won by a company that didn't provide a portal, just a simple search service that let people find what they want.

People don't want a "portal"... they just want to find what they are looking for quickly.