OT: Microsoft Interested in Buying eBoy
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oftheherd
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Interesting. Surprising what MS tries to buy. Why, they have even been trying to buy congress since they figured out they were for sale. 😀
captainslack
Five Goats Hunter
Oh dear God....
bmattock
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oftheherd said:
I resent that implication. Congress is not for sale, it is for rent. Things that are sold stay sold.
Best Regards,
Bill Mattocks
ywenz
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I'd welcome it. Microsoft is alright.
kmack
do your job, then let go
Typical, Micro$oft has never written one line of original code. They simply buy and brand. If you think E-B is bad now, wait till the boys at Redmond get there hands on it and PayPal. And with the M$ record of security I will be closing my PayPal account as soon as the deal is done.
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Socke
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Is there an auction? And what's the BIN?
saxshooter
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The tabloid New York Post is a dubious source for such a business story. Anyhow, Microsoft has other issues it needs to deal with, most importantly delivering Vista when it promises to. Its stock isn't doing so well either these past couple of weeks.
oftheherd
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bmattock said:
I'll give you that on Bill. Congress does have a reputation of being able to bend with the wind of the highest bidder. {;-)
John Camp
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They could call it SoftBoy.
JC
JC
Andy K
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kmack said:
Ditto.....
lushd
Donald
I'm quite interested myself, but I am a bit short of cash just now.
servojohn
Member
kmack said:
Hmmm, why is is this inheritantly bad? Contrary, it's good business. Harley Davidson would surely have died had they not figured out how the Japanese were building higher quality bikes for less money, admit it, and adopt some of the methods-"just in time" and quality circles being two. And this was after the buyout from AMF. A reverse example was the use of GM power steering pumps by a Japanese car manufacturer because they were the best part for the money at the time.
Does MS screw up? Sure, but most companies do at some point.
JHH
John Camp
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As far as i can tell, MS had a burst of energy, mostly in the grasping-capitalist mode (as opposed to the creative mode) back in the 80s and early 90s, and since then, almost anything they've done has been a flop. They dominate word processing after using the monopoly power of their IBM operating system to kill off the arguably better Wordperfect and rival database and bookkeeping software; but the Office suite and Windows has been one buggy kludge after another ever since they bumped off their rivals. Since then, it's been "Let's fight AOL," "Let's build a better search engine," "We promise to provide better security," "Let's take over the game industry," etc. And let us not forget all the wonderful hardware applications...
MS reminds me of IBM back in the early 80s: one great idea that they carefully manipulated to make the most money from, and then it got hit by the bus. I no longer own MS stock, and I may regret it when the new OS comes out, but I doubt it. From my point of view, I think they better hope that Jobs hasn't locked a bunch of people in the basement and told them to come up with a better PC-compatible OS, because if he has, MS could get a sunburn from the redlight going off behind the net.
JC
MS reminds me of IBM back in the early 80s: one great idea that they carefully manipulated to make the most money from, and then it got hit by the bus. I no longer own MS stock, and I may regret it when the new OS comes out, but I doubt it. From my point of view, I think they better hope that Jobs hasn't locked a bunch of people in the basement and told them to come up with a better PC-compatible OS, because if he has, MS could get a sunburn from the redlight going off behind the net.
JC
Trius
Waiting on Maitani
ROTFLMAO!!!!John Camp said:
I doubt this would happen, but if it did I'd be off ePay in a split second.
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Socke
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John Camp said:
Actualy Steve Jobs has a PC-compatible OS which some find much better than MS Windows. Mac OSX Tiger runs fine on wide available PC hardware, if it has a newer Intel CPU with SSE3 command set even Rosetta works.
On an old Dell Inspiron 8200 if need be, but my 2.2 GHz mobile PIV lacks SSE3 so no old Mac OSX apps for me.
kmack
do your job, then let go
Your AMF/Harley analogy is apt. Now imagine that AMF did not sell Harley but instead bought the motorcycle divisions of Honda, Kawasaki, BMW and Yamaha, and then imposed the same quality on all their motorcycle divisions while at the same time used the profits from a near monopoly position on two wheelers to stifle any competition...servojohn said:
Microsoft code is as leaky as the seals on an AMF Sportster.
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Avotius
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ebay is such a gold mine too, I sold a mamiya 6 and two lenses for 1250 on there a while back and ended up having to pay nearly 200 dollars in "fees" for the auction and taking payment through paypal. Ill never sell anything on there again but damnation what a gold mine and rip off it is.
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Socke
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Avotius said:
You did read the terms of service, did you?
