Microsoft's Soapbox returns with filtering technology
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| To that point, Soapbox was littered with pirated videos. This put
| Microsoft in a pickle. The software giant was agreeing to distribute
| content for entertainment companies whose copyright was commonly
| violated at its video-sharing site.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9725064-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
YouTube signs licensing pact with Hearst-Argyle TV
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| A spokesman for YouTube, a unit of Google, confirmed a Wall Street
| Journal story that YouTube will pay licensing fees for news, weather
| and entertainment videos from Hearst-Argyle member stations. It marks
| the first such payments for local broadcast TV stations by YouTube,
| the paper said.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6188383.html
YouTube also has a deal with EMI and Apple TV will support it. Where is
Microsoft in this space? Nowhere. Few people know it even exists.
Related:
Microsoft Befriends Google's Foes
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| After a government- and monopoly-inspired period in which Microsoft had
| to pretend to be a gentle force for global good, the company is being
| forced to return to its ruthless roots. Ironically, it is doing this
| in part by decrying the unfair practices of a competitor and
| shamelessly sucking up to the Establishment.
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http://www.forbes.com/2007/03/06/microsoft-google-blodget-tech-cx_hb_0306blodget.html?partner=yahootix
http://tinyurl.com/3bewws
Desperate Acts (of Microsoft)
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| Microsoft is expected to spend $650 million next year to let the world
| know it has a shiny new search service and Web advertising network.
| That money is more than double the amount Microsoft will spend rolling
| out Vista, the new operating system that will contribute vastly more to
| its revenues.
|
| Microsoft's two-year catch-up effort in search has yielded only
| middling results. This year it dropped from 11% to 9% of all searches.
| Google handled 61% of the 204 billion searches worldwide in the past1
| 2 months.
|
| "We're late to the game. We admit it," confesses a full-page Microsoft
| ad in national papers, begging the world to try out its new Live
| search service. You almost want to hand Chief Executive Steven Ballmer
| a cup of cocoa.
|
| [...]
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| Think of this fight as determining a few decabillion dollars of market
| value circa 2010. The current figures are $147 billion for Google and $284
| billion for Microsoft.
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http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1127/044a_print.html
Google-Mart: Sam Walton Taught Google More About How to Dominate the Internet
Than Microsoft Ever Did
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| Google's strengths are searching, development of Open Source
| Internet services, and running clusters of tens of thousands of
| servers. Notice on this list there is nothing about operating systems.
| There are many rumors about Google doing an operating system to compete
| with Microsoft. I'm not saying they aren't doing that (I simply don't
| know), but I AM saying it would not be a good idea, because it doesn't
| play to any of the company's traditional strengths.
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http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2005/pulpit_20051117_000873.html
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