[dba-Tech] Microsoft

This feels more like a sign of desperation rather than a sound business investment.

- Hans


On 2013-05-10, at 11:50 AM, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Even with all the body blows, that Microsoft has endured recently, they are
> hardly throwing in the towel. 
> 
> Microsoft may be bent but they are not broken or should I say broke. In
> order to make their Windows8 platform more appealing they may just buy Nook
> media and build that feature into their OS. (Getting exclusive rights to
> this new feature may just cost a cool billion...not really expensive but a
> billion here and a billion there and pretty soon it starts adding up to real
> money.)
> 
> http://paidcontent.org/2013/05/09/in-nook-microsoft-sees-a-chance-to-compete
> -against-amazon-and-apple/
> 
> Jim
> 
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