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"" All these changes in the Portal Wars leave Microsoft facing a
complicated question: who are they going to ally with? ""


Have A Nice Cup of Tea

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In article <>,
Have A Nice Cup of Tea <> wrote:

> http://www.playfuls.com/news_02733_D...Bay_Microsoft_
> Left_Outside_Alone.html
>
> "" All these changes in the Portal Wars leave Microsoft facing a
> complicated question: who are they going to ally with? ""
>
>
> Have A Nice Cup of Tea

Dell with Google
Yahoo with eBay
M$ with...umm...Xtra ??

Phil
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On Sun, 28 May 2006 12:54:36 +1200, Philip Roy wrote:

> Dell with Google
> Yahoo with eBay
> M$ with...umm...Xtra ??

M$ has been with Telecom/Xtra for years already. Telecom/Xtra is a
Micro$oft stooge.

I think that M$ will have difficulties finding a credible "partner"
against Dell/Google/Yahoo/eBay.

After all... M$ tends to be the Black Widow of the IT world - and eats its
partners.


Have A Nice Cup of Tea

--
1/ Migration to Linux only costs money once. Higher Windows TCO is forever.
2/ "Shared source" is a poison pill. Open Source is freedom.
3/ Only the Windows boxes get the worms.

In article <>,
Have A Nice Cup of Tea <> wrote:

> On Sun, 28 May 2006 12:54:36 +1200, Philip Roy wrote:
>
> > Dell with Google
> > Yahoo with eBay
> > M$ with...umm...Xtra ??
>
> M$ has been with Telecom/Xtra for years already. Telecom/Xtra is a
> Micro$oft stooge.

No kidding. It was a joke.

Phil
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NZMac.com - Supporting the New Zealand Mac Community
http://www.nzmac.com

Have A Nice Cup of Tea wrote:
> http://www.playfuls.com/news_02733_D...ide_Alone.html
>
> "" All these changes in the Portal Wars leave Microsoft facing a
> complicated question: who are they going to ally with? ""
>

Very good, from a Romanian website, too I see. How on earth did you find
that?

...ah, Slashdot again.

If you are going to start reporting all the deals Microsoft *isn't*
involved in, as well as the ones it is, this is going to get tedious
real fast.

It is going to drive you crazy. Get help.

-=rjh=- wrote:
> Have A Nice Cup of Tea wrote:
>> http://www.playfuls.com/news_02733_D...ide_Alone.html
>>
>>
>> "" All these changes in the Portal Wars leave Microsoft facing a
>> complicated question: who are they going to ally with? ""
>>
>
> Very good, from a Romanian website, too I see. How on earth did you find
> that?
>
> ..ah, Slashdot again.
>
> If you are going to start reporting all the deals Microsoft *isn't*
> involved in, as well as the ones it is, this is going to get tedious
> real fast.
>
> It is going to drive you crazy. Get help.

http://www.live.com/

shannon wrote:
> -=rjh=- wrote:
>> Have A Nice Cup of Tea wrote:
>>> http://www.playfuls.com/news_02733_D...ide_Alone.html
>>>
>>>
>>> "" All these changes in the Portal Wars leave Microsoft facing a
>>> complicated question: who are they going to ally with? ""
>>>
>>
>> Very good, from a Romanian website, too I see. How on earth did you
>> find that?
>>
>> ..ah, Slashdot again.
>>
>> If you are going to start reporting all the deals Microsoft *isn't*
>> involved in, as well as the ones it is, this is going to get tedious
>> real fast.
>>
>> It is going to drive you crazy. Get help.
>
> http://www.live.com/

It is continually improving - when I mentioned it here a couple of
months ago I said it was an embarrassment to MS, but they've come a long
way.

It is better than Google (not google search, though), but I still prefer
Protopage and Fold looks great, too.

But I hate the search results, prefer to navigate a page at a time, in a
page size I specify. That way I can go do something in other tabs while
the search results are loading, in live you have to be reading the page
while the results are loading, and this will be a real pain on dialup.
MS don't get tabbed browsing at all.

The thing that really annoys me about the large company startpages is
that they don't offer any easy way to add your own content, they assume
that people are only interested in having information pushed to them
over the net, which is sad.

On Sun, 28 May 2006 14:39:18 +1200, Philip Roy wrote:

>> > Dell with Google
>> > Yahoo with eBay
>> > M$ with...umm...Xtra ??
>>
>> M$ has been with Telecom/Xtra for years already. Telecom/Xtra is a
>> Micro$oft stooge.
>
> No kidding. It was a joke.

Yes - I appreciated that the "" indicated you were not serious.


Have A Nice Cup of Tea

--
1/ Migration to Linux only costs money once. Higher Windows TCO is forever.
2/ "Shared source" is a poison pill. Open Source is freedom.
3/ Only the Windows boxes get the worms.

On Sun, 28 May 2006 15:11:39 +1200, -=rjh=- wrote:

> Very good, from a Romanian website, too I see. How on earth did you find
> that?

Does it matter? Is it a competition? Thank *rjh* for posting it here. OK.
Yes!

Have A Nice Cup of Tea wrote:

>
http://www.playfuls.com/news_02733_D...ide_Alone.html
>
> "" All these changes in the Portal Wars leave Microsoft facing a
> complicated question: who are they going to ally with? ""

They'll buy Dell.