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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> TechWeek: Microsoft Searches for Traction
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>| Call it the Xerox effect. When your competitor's product is so well known
>| it becomes a verb (as in "please Xerox that article for me"), you know
>| you're in trouble. (Google)
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> http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/newsanalysis/techsoftware/10303350.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA
I cannot really see Microsoft ever hitting the heady heights of the
1990s again in the popularity stakes. It would appear the what was the
world's most effective self-promotion engine is no longer hitting the
right notes.
Google seem to have achieved enormous recognition through an utterly
different approach.
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