Microsoft Plays Software Card Online
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| One clue: Microsoft's fat software profits made it easy to give away
| its Office software to a few hundred advertisers Tuesday. But
| Google's advertising model gives it the freedom to offer its
| answer to Office, to everyone, for free.
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| Even Microsoft can't afford to afford to play that game.
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http://www.forbes.com/2007/05/08/msft-goog-software-tech-media-cx_bc_0509techmsft.html?partner=yahootix
Related:
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| Microsoft has made a concerted effort in recent years to gain a larger
| share of the online-services and advertising market, while going head
| to head with companies including Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. That effort
| has included a roughly $2.7 billion increase in operating expenses
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| for Microsoft in its current fiscal year.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/gates-ad-execs-online-services/story.aspx?guid=%7B2CC41C40%2DC2B7%2D47F8%2D89D3%2D911033FABDF8%7D&siteid=yhoof
http://tinyurl.com/2s7k2y
A Microsoft exec recently said that there's not much demand for the Web-based
version of Microsoft Office. What's more:
Microsoft Office Live migration is adding insult to injury
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| On January 29, Microsoft posted to the Office Live blog a status update
| re: the migration. The news isn't good.
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| Office Live logoBeta testers are still potentially "months" away fromb
| eing migrated to the final version of their Office Live services.
| Functionality like backup and restore isn't going to work until
| their accounts are migrated. And Microsoft will give testers only
| a 24-hour heads-up when they are set to be migrated. During that
| 24-hour period, users won't be able to make changes to their
| Office Live sites.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=243
Office Live: Better Off Dead?
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| Last month I killed Office Live in an act of self defense, after
| repeated access problems and attempts to move my domain to another
| registrar. Judging from the comments to that post, there's an Office
| Live killing spree going on. Not surprisingly, Microsoft wants to put
| an end to the wanton killing.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/web_services_browser/office_live_better_off_dead.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/ybsz2o
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