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Microsoft In Mobile Search Deal With Verizon
An anonymous reader writes "Verizon Wireless will forge a deal with Microsoft to include the software giant's Live Search on its mobile phones, giving Microsoft a victory over rival Google and ending a months-long dance toward the partnership. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will announce the deal in his keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas." InfoWorld notes that Microsoft is rumored to be changing the name of its Live Search service to Kumo, which is Japanese for "cloud."
...I'm glad my Verizon contract is up.
What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?
it's like a search engine?
It'd be interesting to see how all of this plays out.
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They should name it "bukakke" because the search results would just keep pourin' in!
And also because using MS is humiliating.
Cloud?! Will the marketroids PLEASE stop referring to the Internet and everything else in it as a 'cloud'!
Thank you. That is all.
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Isn't that, like, almost the name of the Steven King movie? The one wih the rabid dog?
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Verizon: Our firmware sucks the chrome off a trailer hitch.
Microsoft: Our search platform sucks harder than a fluffer on a geezer porn set, and our operating systems suck bowling balls through straws.
This is the foundation for a vortex of suck powerful enough to suck galactic-sized black holes through buckytubes. What's next, everything has to run under Vista CE?
Seeing as how Verizon likes to charge a lot for its data plans, will Microsoft re-issue its previous plan of paying people for using Live Search? Would be a way to offset the mobile data cost.
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While I think this is a great move on its part, Microsoft faces an uphill battle as the word "google" is now a verb. By the way, will I be in position to change Verizon's new default search engine (Live Search) back to Google? Hackers anyone?
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It doesn't surprise me that Verizon would forge something. It doesn't surprise me that Microsoft would participate in forgery.
"kumo" can also mean "spider"
I'm guessing it's so they can trademark "Kumo" in the non-Japanese speaking world. In Japan, I'm sure it'll be called/trademarked "Cloud" ... sigh.
And why would anyone call a search engine/service "Cloud"?
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It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Unless the phone is retarded, users will still bookmark Google and conduct the search there just like they do in Windows.
The Microsoft hate circle jerk...
giving Microsoft a victory over rival Google
Is that really a victory for Microsoft, or a loss for Verizon?
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And why would anyone call a search engine/service "Cloud"?
Obviously, because the service is all wet.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
"Please enter a search term to pay for the next ten minutes. The search results and limited advertising will be randomly inserted during awkward pauses in your conversation."
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Except of course that Verizon charges and arm and a leg for unlimited data, so Microsoft just spent millions on making sure about 114 people will get their search engine as the default.
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
> Does anybody know what happened to Verizon's much touted plan to provide open access?
I thought they had a much touted plan to never provide open access? Unless you count the $50/mo data plan.
I'm a customer, but I'm a luddite that does little more than place phone calls and a few text messages now and then.
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
"giving Microsoft a victory over rival Google"
This is a great moment. For a second their I thought their monopoly was in trouble.
Lets see - if I get the GPhone from T-Mobile I can replace any application I want on it, right down to the kernel. I can totally customize it from the ground up, and use anything I want on it to access any information I want.
Name one Verizon phone that lets me do this? Hell I doubt I will even be able to uninstall this Live Search POS.
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Maybe instead of coming to a place where the exact same thing happens every time a story like this crops up, you could go someplace else where you wouldn't be frustrated.
Or you could eat a nice big dick.
I could use my moderate points to mod down everyone who promotes use of the word "cloud"
it's a tough battle for them when people use will use this know how good the competition is. It's not like their Windows monopoly where most users are not even aware of any of the other computer systems except maybe some know _of_ the Mac. Most people use Google for search on other devices so changing the name and paying Verison twice what the deal Google had is only going to continue the financial losses at Microsoft in every division outside of MS Windows and MS Office. IMO.
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Have you ever tried to use Verizon phone bluetooth to send or receive files ? You can't it's crippled.
I liked the BB storm but cannot send my mp3's to it or exchange business cards over bluetooth.
I often use the 4gb flash in my nokia e51 as a thumb drive. The best of all dont have to lug a usb cable around. Using OpenSuse and Gnome I can open the contents of the flash drive as an obex folder. Cant do that with verizon phones.
Waiting for a good open moko based phone.
If your phone has a web browser, and you are truly free to go to any website, then nothing stops anyone from still using Google, even if it isn't the default.
Anyhow, this is just one more reason, among many, of why I'm glad I'm switching to T-Mo (though, to be fair, I'm not gonna get a smart phone or a data plan - I can't justify spending $60/mo just to surf the web on my phone, or $100/mo for an unlimited-everything plan, if Verizon has one, like Sprint's. That is just *too much money* to spend on a phone, unless you are using it for business purposes and really do depend on constant connectivity to make your livelyhood.
Yeah, thanks, I'll be switching when my phone contract comes up. Sorry Ballmer, throw your chair at someone else. You douche.
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I just thought the "live" brand was stupid, I like it a little better now facing kumo as the new name.
This is the classic example of what is wrong with the splintered culture in the US. The SMART dinousour business men make a completely dumb decision because the go to the same country club, and still think all the sheeple will follow.
Google Mobile has had a whole heap of apps available to download to your phone for free, such as their Google Search plugin for your Windows Mobile home screen.
I've been waiting for a good reason to get out of my Verizon account for a while now and they have just given it to me.
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Kumo can also mean spider. I think it appropriate.
I don't want Microsoft in my life. They are criminally convicted monopolists. The world needs to move on to companies that can abide by the laws. We don't need the influences of Microsoft any more. We are no longer babies needing their hand holding. The industry is maturing. We need less Microsoft and more competition, especially in the OS and Office type application markets.
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Microsoft just announced a change of plans: The company is going to rename its Live Search service to 'Cloud' which is Japanese for 'guy with yellow spikey hair and a big, big sword'. Microsoft representatives expressed their hope that this move would refresh the brand with a more youthful and positive image.
Rejected alternative name suggestions include 'Kumo' which is the German abbreviation for 'Kuestenmotorschiff' (coaster), and 'Develo-Debu' which is Japanese and short for 'scary sweaty fat man yelling "Developers!"'.
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