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MSN 8 Asks Users to Pay for Some Online Services | |
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| Time: 16:00 EST/21:00 GMT | News Source: Gartner | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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Microsoft's decision to move MSN to a partial for-pay model reasonably extends the trend in which content and application providers seek financial legitimacy by countering the popular mid-1990s assertion that information ("content" is the more common term in 2002) "wants to be free." The precipitous decline in competition among Internet information and interaction hubs makes the for-pay business model more defensible than ever — the critical issue here. | ||
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| #176 By 2459 (24.233.39.98) at 9/23/2002 6:13:02 AM |
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Case in point, the anti-trust case :-)
Almost all the "evidence" brought in that case was supposition and speculation about what MS could do. Even though they didn't do it in the past, or didn't know what they did would be considered illegal now, because their tactics were no different, and to a lesser degree in many cases that what others in the industry did regularly. MS just happened to have too much market share in certain markets when they were called on it. Even the big evidence, the one thing that could have gotten MS competition somewhere, the supposition that Windows could be dis-integrated without breaking anything, was said to be doable, even though MS testified that it couldn't (and Bill was pretty thourough with his documented testimony -- as was Allchin and others), the only thing the "competitors" could come up with is 67 CDs of XP Embedded images and more on harddrives. Plus, this entire computer and 67 CDs was only 1 copy of evidence they were supposed to provide the defence. That was definitely one of the funniest moments in the trial. It was the glove that didn't fit all over again. :-) |
| #177 By 2459 (24.233.39.98) at 9/23/2002 6:15:51 AM |
| Forgot. They were supposed to provide 2 copies. 1 for the defense lawyers, 1 for MS. |
| #178 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 9/23/2002 6:16:36 AM |
| those 67 CD's really ticked of the judge and it got me a laugh. |
| #179 By 2459 (24.233.39.98) at 9/23/2002 6:18:46 AM |
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Hey Bob, I'm going to get some sleep. I have a class later today(actually tonight). I'll check this thread later.
I'll leave you to school the masses in the meantime. :-) |
| #180 By 2459 (24.233.39.98) at 9/23/2002 6:19:15 AM |
| Great thread by the way. |
| #181 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 9/23/2002 6:20:07 AM |
| g'nite n4cer. thanks for the help with the record. |
| #182 By 2459 (24.233.39.98) at 9/23/2002 6:20:46 AM |
| no prob. (A little more help, heh.) |
| #183 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 9/23/2002 6:21:44 AM |
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nom, actually my goal was beta testing the forum's user profile section. i was looking for a photo close to that size and i realized that microsoft had tons of pics of all of their execs.
also, i am an admirer of bill. he is a brilliant business man. i don't agree with all of his logic, but he is still a very intelligent man. |
| #184 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 9/23/2002 6:22:19 AM |
| 635 now. you're coming up fast! |
| #185 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 9/23/2002 6:28:06 AM |
| um that's why bill outsmarted steve and created a 250+ billion dollar company, while jobs has created a company worth about 2% of that? |
| #186 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 9/23/2002 6:33:09 AM |
| whatever, bro. you want to get me a link on that. such a statement makes little sense. regardless, bill's business intelligence is leaps and bounds ahead of steve's. |
| #187 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 9/23/2002 6:44:07 AM |
| again, what evidence do you have of that. i've read much on bill gates have concluded that you are dead wrong. there was at least a 10 year period between allen leaving and ballmer becoming ceo. gates handled the company quite well on his own - though, i agree i'd have done the anti trust case differently if i were him. if either allen or ballmer were the real brains, then their business intelligence is somewhat limited because bill is worth more than both of them put together. |
| #188 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 9/23/2002 6:45:26 AM |
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thanks for trolling with me tonight. i might be back a little later, but i'm at least going to take a break for now.
btw, you don't really believe the crap you posted about microsoft, bill gates, apple, and steve jobs, do you? i hope you were just baiting me to get the thread to the record. |
| #189 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 9/23/2002 6:52:39 AM |
| Lol! I'm glad I came back to read that before heading to bed. That was the funniest thing you said all night! Lol! |
| #190 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 9/23/2002 10:27:24 AM |
| Wanna bet? |
| #191 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 9/23/2002 11:00:21 AM |
| It's a good thing, because you'd lose if you were. |
| #192 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 9/23/2002 12:13:05 PM |
| Lol! |
| #193 By 20 (24.243.41.64) at 9/23/2002 12:21:10 PM |
| Last post! Hah! |
| #194 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 9/23/2002 12:22:28 PM |
| Not any more. : - ) |
| #195 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 9/23/2002 1:04:26 PM |
| So, is this an official record, AW? |
| #196 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 9/23/2002 1:31:54 PM |
| I guess I'll take this one then. |
| #197 By 5444 (208.180.245.190) at 9/23/2002 1:35:54 PM |
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Wow, do yall sleep:)
Well anyway, the discussion is like 2 or 3 pages back now and I forgot what I was going to say. El |
| #198 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 9/23/2002 1:39:45 PM |
| No sleep for me! |
| #199 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 9/23/2002 2:20:37 PM |
| Won't hold last post for too long! |
| #200 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 9/23/2002 2:21:00 PM |
| you, that is! |
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