bbrkdub
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| reply to tad2020
Re: logic
said by 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. 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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