Re: logic in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21261443 en Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:55:42 EDT Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:55:42 EDT Re: logic http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21263234 bbrkdub :
said by tad2020 See Profile :

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Not everyone sees the logic in a Microsoft RIM acquisition, some wondering where the logic is in Microsoft jumping into the Linux-based handset business.


Simple, to kill it and replace it with it's own software product.
Exactly. Microsoft has done this before. When they bought HotMail they switched from FreeBSD to Win2K.
»www.theregister.co.uk/2000/08/01···n_switch

This doesn't appear like a far fetched idea to me and, if you're Microsoft, makes plenty of business sense.
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Hope this helps...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21263234 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:37:15 EDT Re: logic http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21261443 Doctor Four : Giant AntiSpyware, anyone?

I can probably name more than a dozen other examples where
Microsoft bought out and gutted a competing company in order
to offer their own (and usually much crappier) product, though
the Giant buyout is the one I remember the most.
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"The trouble with computers, of course, is that they are very sophisticated idiots." - Doctor Who (from Robot)
]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21261443 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:57:01 EDT logic http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21260022 tad2020 :
quote:
Not everyone sees the logic in a Microsoft RIM acquisition, some wondering where the logic is in Microsoft jumping into the Linux-based handset business.


Simple, to kill it and replace it with it's own software product.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21260022 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:11:54 EDT