Archive for August, 2004

Lucent did it, Cisco did it, IBM does it. Will M$ do it?

« 5 August 2004 at 7:55 pm | 1 Comment
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There is something very peculiar that some big tech companies do.
M$ hasn’t come out into the open about it … yet!
Does it?
Doesn’t it?
Guess before you click …

Microsoft acquires Lookout Soft. ActiveViews. Virtual PC. Placeware. Rare. NCompass Labs. Great Plains. WebTV. (plus few others, read here and here)
The real milestones:

First company M$ acquired: Maker of […]



A loser Marwari

« 4 August 2004 at 10:32 pm | No Comments
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This is something that always, always happens to me.
I ordered this really really killer system 2 days ago …
this,
this,
this and
TWO of these.
And today, of course, i see that I could have gotten these.
Sob, sob, sob.
In case you are wondering, the price i paid was around 80 bucks more than this new deal.
Not an entirely smart […]



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