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Microsoft's acquisition track record | |
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| Time: 00:04 EST/05:04 GMT | News Source: WinBeta | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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While Microsoft is no Oracle when it comes to acquisitions, the company has been getting accustomed to cracking open its oversized wallet. Historically, Microsoft has focused largely on smaller deals to acquire technology, as opposed to megadeals to buy established businesses. Microsoft is, of course, in the throes of a $44.6 billion bid for Net pioneer Yahoo. "It's a different type of acquisition for Microsoft," Directions on Microsoft analyst Matt Rosoff said of the Yahoo bid. "It's a new way of thinking." (Rosoff is a contributor to the CNET Blog Network.) | ||
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| #1 By 52115 (66.181.69.250) at 2/13/2008 8:34:39 AM |
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"A new way of thinking." ???
What's that, lets first knock out Yahoo, then we'll work on getting Ask.com and then another so that we can compete with Google.. |
| #2 By 88850 (221.128.180.156) at 2/13/2008 10:49:29 AM |
| Unlike the 90s, all recent products which have been acquired by MS have been ruined in some way/functionality. Of course they make their own additions and add several new features but end up ruining a lot of the existing functionality. Virtual PC, Expression, Winternals other products are best examples. |
| #3 By 82766 (202.154.80.82) at 2/13/2008 4:33:23 PM |
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Tux - what reasoning do you have for considering Winternals "ruined" due to Microsoft buying them?
Mark and Bryce now have a very large say with the Core OS, have internal access to the code, they are still releasing applications including updated ones, their programs are "better than ever", their programs are now hosted by Microsoft's very large web site infrastructure around the world, the app's are still free... so I don't see how Winternals is ruined? |
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