 |
 |
| ActiveWin | Anonymous | Create a User | Reviews | News | Forums | Advertise | VBA in Excel | Users Online: 0 |
|
|
|
|
|
User Controls |
|
New User |
|
Login |
|
Edit/View My Profile |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Active Network |
|
ActiveMac |
|
ActiveWin |
|
ActiveXbox |
|
DirectX |
|
Downloads |
|
FAQs |
|
Interviews |
|
MS Games & Hardware |
|
Reviews |
|
Rocky Bytes |
|
Support Center |
|
TopTechTips |
|
Windows 2000 |
|
Windows Me |
|
Windows Server 2003 |
|
Windows Vista |
|
Windows XP |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
News Centers |
|
Windows/Microsoft |
|
Apple/Mac |
|
Xbox/Xbox 360 |
|
News Search |
|
XML/RSS Newsfeeds |
|
Pocket PC Site |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
FAQ's |
|
Windows Vista |
|
Windows 98/98 SE |
|
Windows 2000 |
|
Windows Me |
|
Windows Server 2003 |
|
Windows XP |
|
Windows 7 |
|
Windows 8 |
|
Internet Explorer 6 |
|
Internet Explorer 5 |
|
Xbox 360 |
|
Xbox |
|
DirectX |
|
DVD's |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Latest Reviews |
|
Xbox/Games |
|
Fable 2 |
|
|
|
Applications |
|
Windows Server 2008 R2 |
|
Windows 7 |
|
Adobe CS5 Master Collection |
|
|
|
Hardware |
|
Microsoft Express Mouse |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Latest Interviews |
|
Mike Swanson |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Site News/Info |
|
About This Site |
|
Advertise |
|
Affiliates |
|
Contact Us |
|
Default Home Page |
|
Link To Us |
 |
Will Bing bury Microsoft? | |
|
||
| Time: 13:12 EST/18:12 GMT | News Source: ComputerWorld | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
|
Microsoft still suffers from Google envy: Steve Ballmer appears ready to make a bet of up to $11 billion that Microsoft's new search engine Bing can overtake its Internet competitor. At best, the bet is a long shot, and throwing away that amount of money could well do Microsoft irreparable harm. |
||
|
Read Only Comments Return to News |
Displaying Comments 1 through 5 of 5 |
This is an archived static copy of ActiveWin.com. |
| #1 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Wednesday, June 24, 2009 01:59:40 PM |
| I saw a Bing ad last night that wasn't meaningless or confusing. It was a tie-in between NBC and Bing, where NBC rhetorically asked what was on NBC tonight and then used Bing to bring up the evening's slate of shows, with the video preview thing etc, followed by the NBC three-note jingle with the words "Bing!" appearing in sync with the notes. Clever. |
| #2 By 7754 (206.169.247.2) at Wednesday, June 24, 2009 02:22:16 PM |
| Did you see the one as well where it fast-forwards through the commercials? I thought something went screwy at the cable company's feed or something at first (the fast-forwarding actually took quite awhile...), but then it turned out to be a Bing ad... I thought, wow, that's quite an attention-getter, if nothing else. I had never seen an ad like that before, and I had worked at an ad agency for quite awhile. |
| #3 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Wednesday, June 24, 2009 02:40:56 PM |
| #2: No. I was only on NBC for about 5 minutes before we resumed "Harold & Kumar to go Guantanamo Bay". Mindless and implausible and silly, but Neil Patrick Harris made me laugh a few times, and it featured a scene of a "bottomless" party (topless parties are passe, apparently.) |
| #4 By 8556 (173.27.242.53) at Thursday, June 25, 2009 12:31:32 AM |
| Ballmer lights his cigars with billion dollar checks made out to cash. MS can afford to burn a few billion more. |
| #5 By 9589 (71.71.111.161) at Thursday, June 25, 2009 10:23:58 AM |
|
The author fails to recount the many areas where Microsoft has come from behind to beat the competition.
In any event, all the better for us, the users. So long as Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft are at each others throats, the better search becomes. |
