Summary: Microsoft and the media come together in the UK, Canada, and the United States
BACK IN AUGUST we offered a little summary of Microsoft's mischiefs at the BBC [1, 2], where there is increasing staff-wise intersection with Microsoft. The Belfast Telegraph has come up with a somewhat alarming headline, saying that "Microsoft plans to become key provider of news to British audiences."
Microsoft plans to become key provider of news to British audiences
It's really called a huddle but we are so whacky and new media here we call it The Cuddle," laughs Matthew Ball, as he heads off into a corner of the newsroom and gathers his staff about him.
Then in a circular space, looking out towards Buckingham Palace, Microsoft's British editor-in-chief, addresses his team of news, entertainment, motoring and business journalists, as they seek to become major players in the British news media.
The New York Television Festival is partnering with Microsoft's MSN, Zune and Xbox for the fifth annual event, taking place from Sept. 21-26 in New York City.
With Apple's Mac home market share tripling in the past five years, Microsoft has fought back with its own advertising campaigns attacking Apple for the first time, a move one analyst sees as a mistake.
Marketing does make a difference, but the question is, what is the cost to Microsoft? With multi-billion marketing budgets, Apple and Microsoft sure annul a lot of their earnings. Superficial images and stereotypes are not an ideal method to gain faithfulness from customers, but then again, Ballmer and his wife have an extensive professional background in marketing. ⬆
Heh. What it means is that Microsloth is spending money that they could have used to fix their software, rather than fixing their software. This shows their priorities.
With over 6 million pounds in debt (nearly 10 million US dollars) we guess it's likely some other company will take over the site (if it deems it worthwhile)
The crash of this bubble isn't just inevitable, it's already happening and receding sporadically because of false announcements about money that does not actually exist (to "buy time")
When Debian wanted to stage a seemingly legitimate election it needed to have more than one candidate running; so eventually the female partner of a geek rose to the challenge (had no coding skills at all, no technical history in Debian) and lost to the "incumbent German"
Even back in the 90s many people converted programs from one language to another. That could invalidate copyleft (and copyright), which already existed
"The Claimant says he is “a computer security expert”, but his background and his track record in the education sense (genetics) does not support this assertion."
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The Mad Hatter
2009-09-08 01:36:03