Microsoft has a lot of control over the English-speaking Indian press in the sense that there are rarely critical articles coming from there. They play along for the most part, e.g. [1, 2] because some technology companies in India became dependent on Microsoft. Wipro is one of those companies and one of its employees tries to enter OpenOffice.org, which is risky because Wipro is a close Microsoft partner [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. According to this new press release, "Wipro Partners with Microsoft to Deliver Global Legal Process Outsourcing Efficiencies" and additional news coverage says that:
“NASSCOM has decided to help increase Microsoft lock-in and this helps nobody, except Microsoft.”NASSCOM is another Indian entity that typically serves Microsoft [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] and based on this news, NASSCOM is again proving that it does not serve the people of India; rather, it once again makes them dependent on foreign interests and proprietary software. NASSCOM has decided to help increase Microsoft lock-in and this helps nobody, except Microsoft.
Looking at potential entryism in the United States, "Microsoft’s Decision to Friend Facebook Is Looking Good," says this headline from the Wall Street Journal after Facebook decided to do so much to serve its friend and shareholder, Microsoft.
VMware, which is now run by former Microsoft executives, gets blessed by Microsoft magazines (there are others) and Amazon, which is also filled with former Microsoft executives, grows somewhat closer to Microsoft.
Amazon wants to own the shopping results that are served up from Microsoft's Bing search engine, we've heard from an industry source close to both companies.
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Needs Sunlight
2010-06-21 14:29:36