____/ [H]omer on Sunday 23 March 2008 23:12 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> | Microsoft needs to learn that adding together two negatives doesn't
>> | equal a positive.
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> That's pretty much what I said when I first heard about this proposed
> deal. Why anyone thinks it's a good idea (from Microsoft's perspective
> at least), is quite puzzling, but then desperate times call for
> desperate measure, I guess.
I'd go further. You /cannot/ combine indexes. You cannot merge search/crawling
algorithms. You can hardly even merge datacentres that run different
infrastructures (Microsoft Bob 2003 and FreeBSD). It's insane. This just leads
to more confusion. You can't have 9 women deliver a baby in one month.
> I still hope this deal goes through. Anything that depletes the Redmond
> gangster's resources can only be a good thing for all of us.
I wonder how the OOXML fiasco has cost them (more expenses to come.. due to
antitrust fines and harm to image).
I wonder if, all in all, Microsoft operates at a loss. It pulls money from its
savings nowadays and it hides losing units[1], which is pretty much all of
them except 1 or 2 (guess which one/s).
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[1] The more bizarre things they were caught doing, a prudent observer might be
calling 'massaging' or cooking the books, but everyone apparently does that.
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