hutcheson - 3:49 pm on Jul 16, 2008 (gmt 0)

>When Yahoo talks about this deal generating up to $800 million in additional revenue, that’s money out of the pockets of American businesses, big and small, who will pay higher prices for the very same ads they buy from Yahoo today.

Funny how that logic doesn't apply to the MS promotions to their own remoras -- remember, "every $1.00 spent on MS-Vista is another $5.17 in consulting fees"?

The difference being, of course, that advertising is not a self-sustaining monopoly, while "software development platforms" is. Someone can come up with a new ad model, and everyone with a brain could switch this afternoon. But someone could come up with a better computer platform (Mac/Linux/Solaris/whatever), and the customers would still be stuck on the old platform where the programs they've purchased are -- and the developers would still be stuck on the old platform where their users are. It's a catch-22 squared.

The heart bleeds for poor l'l Microsoft and its threatened business model. May their misery end -- soon.