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Yahoo Bid shows Microsoft on the Ropes
Ponca City, We Love You writes "One day after the announcement of Microsoft's plan to buy Yahoo, there is an interesting piece from the NY Times analyzing the reasons behind Microsoft's bid and proposing that the bid is a tacit, and difficult, admission that Microsoft did not get its online business right and that online losses continue to mount while Google makes billions in profit. Microsoft "finds itself in a battle where improving its search algorithms and online ad software is not going to be enough," writes the Times. With the Yahoo bid Microsoft is trying to buy a big enough share of the market to be a credible alternative to Google with online advertisers. "This shows just how worried Microsoft is by Google," says David B. Yoffie. "Microsoft has faced competitive threats before, but none with the size, strength, profitability and momentum of Google.""
He makes me want to puke. He is an asshole.
Microsoft software sucks. It is retarded.
Boy, what can you say. XBox should have completely kicked PS3's ass. But despite the better games portfolio, and much higher US adoption rates, it was bleeding money... Which goes to show what happens when an software company tries to do hardware. Then there's HD-DVD. Someone at Sony is laughing his ass of right now.
Zune... lost and continues to lose to Apple.
Live looses to Google (and the web in general).
So here we are. The problem for MS at this point is that they see some kind of revolution coming that is going to (they think) dethrone them. So they try to cover each of these areas, and do each one of them, not poorly, but not with enough focus and attention that they win. In the end, no-one at MS seems to care if Zune or anything else fails.
Despite what you may read on slashdot, all other evidence suggests that this simply isn't true.
Despite what you may post without evidence on slashdot, much other evidence suggests that this has more truth than falseness.
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What about the sensitive data saved in my email? Or the fact that access to my email account gives access to a lot of more sensitive services because they are willing to email me passwords?
Vulnerability to random hackers is one thing (My individual odds of becoming a victim are very small). Microsoft having access to this data is pretty dangerous. They could determine that I use Linux from the email, gain access to online banking, and transfer themselves the money as payment for their unspecified intellectual property. If I am victimized by Microsoft, will I have the same recourse as if it was eastern European hackers?
Microsoft has shown, with the SCOX evilness, that it will do anything to scare people from using Linux - without regards to what is legal. Someone who is willing to do this, and with these kinds of resources, is quite dangerous.
This is a wake-up-call for me. I am going to stop using Yahoo mail, and make sure that all online banking and other sensitive services do not allow elevation of email acccess to the ability to transfer money.
So, ten years later, the identified threat turns out to be true, albeit moreso in the Office monopoly than on the OS. How quaint.
These documents acknowledged that free software products such as Linux were technologically competitive with some of Microsoft's products, and set out a strategy to combat them. The documents were embarrassing largely because they contradicted Microsoft's public pronouncements on the subject.I wonder if the "strategy" was DRM and to adopt uncooperative practices. I guess that didn't turn out so well...
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moron. I've been doing under water javascript requests since *1998*, because there was no other way to stream video to a browser without using a plugin (unless you had netscape).
The script is pretty much unchanged from it's original, check any ww.com userpage, and no, I didn't even bother patenting it because it seemed pretty obvious to me at the time.
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