Microsoft comes up with a Google search page

Vu Pham vu
Tue Sep 12 20:58:34 PDT 2006


> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org 
> [mailto:linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org] On Behalf Of Bill Campbell
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 7:34 PM
> To: linux-users at linux-sxs.org
> Subject: Re: Microsoft comes up with a Google search page
> 
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2006, James McDonald wrote:
> >proof that `if at first you don't succeed copy someone who has'
> 
> That's been Microsoft's strategy for years.  The only program 
> I can think of off hand that was original with Microsoft was 
> ``Bob''.  Everything else originated someplace else.
> 
> Sometimes Microsoft even pays for the products it copies.

A very good example of not to reinvent the wheel but still make money.

Vu




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