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Re: [News] [Rival] Secret/Quiet Failures at Microsoft - Advertisements, XBox, Portals (And More)

  • Subject: Re: [News] [Rival] Secret/Quiet Failures at Microsoft - Advertisements, XBox, Portals (And More)
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 10:54:30 +0100
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> Microsoft Exec Says Epic Cost Them One Billion
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | In his most recent podcast, Major Nelson, a well known XBox PR outlet, has 
> | said that Epic Games cost Microsoft a BILLION dollars.
> `----
> 
> http://news.filefront.com/microsoft-exec-says-epic-cost-them-one-billion/

MS shouldn't complain; it just gives them the chance to do the one thing
they're good at ... spend money.

> Excessive offshoring or a broken spellchecker?
> 
> http://images.golivewire.com/ib/129865_f.jpg

Typos aside, I'm more interested in why they're apparently using Trend
Micro instead of their own OneCare (RAV) on Hotmail. No, don't answer that.

> Microsoft Games Division in Trouble??
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | When you combine this with the $21 BILLION that Microsoft has invested
> | in the Home & Entertainment Division (official name) and the $5.4
> | BILLION of operating losses in the last FIVE years, it makes you
> | worry.
> `----
> 
> http://www.seekingvalue.com/microsoft-games-division-in-trouble/

It's Epic's fault.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

.----
| I found [Vista] to be a dangerously unstable operating system,
| which has caused me to lose data ... unfortunately this product
| is unfit for any user. - [H]ardOCP, <http://tinyurl.com/3bpfs2>
`----

Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) on sky, running kernel 2.6.20-1.2312.fc5
 10:46:08 up 22 days,  8:18,  3 users,  load average: 0.04, 0.12, 0.17

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