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  • Online Ad Bubble: aQuantive Deal Makes No Financial Sense For Microsoft
    Web TV acquisition-- MSFT spent a half-billion (but dollars were worth more). result--no profit, no product.

    Spyglass acquisition-- lead to Internet Explorer. IE actually WAS a decent browser for about 2 years-- but it never made MSFT a dime.

    Bungie acquisition-- Halo is supposed to be a great game. The Xbox is supposed to be semi-ok-- but MSFT is bleeding money on the XBox platform; thus, again, their corporate stupidity shines through.

    Connectix acquisition-- gave then Virtual PC. A product now obsolete.

    Great Plains software acquisition-- gave them a relatively uninteresting accounting product.

    Yep, they have a pretty godawful record. Perhaps their worst acquistion was Steve Ballmer, and that occurred a long ways back.
    May 21 00:26 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Did Microsoft Panic With This aQuantive Buy?
    I recall when they bought Spyglass. That led to Internet Explorer-- another disastrous product for MSFT. While it was pretty decent for a few years, it has been just about totally neglected for roughly a decade. And it has NEVER made MSFT a dime; who pays for web browsers?
    May 18 15:40 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Did Microsoft Panic With This aQuantive Buy?
    I'm loving this: Vista sales abysmal; XBox still hemorhaging money, and now they buy a nothing ad company for 6 B? We may enjoy a post-MSFT future sooner than my wildest imagining, with Ballmer at the helm.
    May 18 11:21 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article

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