--Steve Jobs, 2006
Thereââ¬â¢s no question Bing feels like Kayak. When Microsoft showed us the search engine under embargo, this reporterââ¬â¢s first comment upon seeing the travel page demoââ¬â¢d was ââ¬ÅThis looks like Kayak.ââ¬Â Our Bing review described its interface as ââ¬Åuncomfortably close to Kayakââ¬â¢s,ââ¬Â an observation that others made as well.As Nessuno points out, "How do you find time for innovation when you're so busy threatening companies with nonexistent patents, handing cash under the table to finance anti-Linux suits, bribing Congressmen and EU parliament members, corrupting standards bodies, managing armies of trolls on newsgroups, bribing third-world governments to cut off OLPC, inventing new "Get the Lies" campaigns, paying people to use Bing, fixing security holes in your swiss-cheese OS, copying features from OS/X and iPhone, strong-arming OEMs not to install Linux, etc etc? àNo wonder other companies (Apple, Google, ...) run circles around MS in real innovation---they have a lot less distracting them." Speaking of "handing cash under the table to finance anti-Linux suits," watch this new article about T3's lawsuit against Linux-powered mainframes. Microsoft sponsors this lawsuit and it also pays professors to write in favour of this lawsuit.
It's just like another SCO where IBM and Linux are targeted. Larry Goldfarb, the key investor in SCO, said that "Microsoft wished to promote SCO and its pending lawsuit against IBM and the Linux operating system. But Microsoft did not want to be seen as attacking IBM or Linux." He also added that Microsoft's "Mr. Emerson and I discussed a variety of investment structures wherein Microsoft would 'backstop,' or guarantee in some way, BayStar's investment.... Microsoft assured me that it would in some way guarantee BayStar's investment in SCO." Keep it classy, Microsoft. ââË "On the same day that CA blasted SCO, Open Source evangelist Eric Raymond revealed a leaked email from SCO's strategic consultant Mike Anderer to their management. The email details how, surprise surprise, Microsoft has arranged virtually all of SCO's financing, hiding behind intermediaries like Baystar Capital."IBM's antitrust cage gets rattled
[...] Microsoft, which has managed to dodge antitrust bullets matrix style for years, also chimed into the discussion, with a spokesvoles calling for "greater openness and choice" in the mainframe market. Excuse us while we choke.