Microsoft Buys Search Engine, Going After Google?

obsolete1349 writes "Microsoft has just bid 1.2 billion dollars for FAST (Fast Search And Transfer [Microsoft to use a self-recursive acronym?]), an enterprise search company. 'Microsoft can bundle FAST with its Microsoft Office SharePoint Server' with its soon-to-be-customers Comcast, Disney, Microsoft, Pfizer, and UBS."

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Microsoft buys out the competition

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Does nobody else see that this is just MS buying out the competition. it's true that they will run the company they buy into the ground, tey always do but then there will be less competition and more MS. Sound like a familiar pattern?