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“Why Don’t They [Microsoft] Just *Pay* People to Use Their Mobiles?”

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http://techrights.org – Summary: Just paying people to use Vista Phone 7 [sic] is the sarcastic advice Glyn Moody gives to Microsoft; Microsoft marketing expenses now exceed a billion dollars MICROSOFT LOSES about 3 billion dollars online every year. It’s not hard to see why. Microsoft just cannot compete against Google (not fairly anyway) and sometimes it even bribes people to use Bong [sic], its so-called ‘decsion’ or ‘search’ engine. What Microsoft does on the Web is not sustainable as it burns a lot of the income which comes from cash cows. The same goes for Microsoft’s fail (General)

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Submitted by ziyi on 10/19/2010 – Made popular on 10/19/2010

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