Randall Stross, who knows a bit about Microsoft and also done some skillful hatchet Jobs takes to the New York Times and rips Microsoft Live search a new one for their announcement that they will pay big IT departments to install Microsoft Live toolbars on all their PCs. The payments will be based on search volume.

IF Microsoft has determined that it is futile to compete with Google head-to-head, and if, as seems to be the case, it is willing to cast dignity aside and adopt marketing gimmicks in an attempt to gain market share, why stop at half measures?

Microsoft is so desperate and incompetent here, that one could almost start to feel sorry for them.

Not really.

Labels: live, microsoft, sucks

¶ 4/04/2007