____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 05 December 2007 12:49 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Microsoft offers $300m for web-washing ad campaign
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| We've been here several times before. Most recently, isn't the desire to be
>>| seen as hip to the web why Redmond paid $240m for a piffling 1.6 per cent
>>| of revenue-lite Facebook - a site Steve Ballmer described as a "fad"?
>>|
>>| Microsoft certainly needs to do something. The latest research from the
>>| search market - where the money is in online services - shows that Google's
>>| slice of the pie continues to grow. In the US in October, 58.5 per cent of
>>| web queries went though its enormous text ad farms.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/29/ms_web_ad_campaign/
>>
>> Maybe they should return to shills while Gates buys some more media
>> companies. How much was spent on advertising the spyware flop (Vista) which
>> forces people to pay the absuing monopoly (Intel) for a new PC?
>> $500,000,000.
>>
>
> That's a lot of money which needs to be recovered from the Vista-buying
> public.
...Via poor OEMs (public is forced to pay anyway). Did you know that Dell has
just begun some very major buybacks (like Microsoft and IBM)?
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