ManagementSpeak: Your company’s future depends on this.
Translation: We sell it, and at premium prices.
KJR Club member William Adams explains the nature of dependencies.
Month: August 2009
Searching for logic
Why exactly does Microsoft care about search?
Microsoft is a software company. Sure, it has made forays into hardware (keyboards, mice, joysticks, and the ever-semi-popular Xbox), on-line services (the ever-semi-popular MSN.com) and information delivery (the ever semi-popular MSNBC).
What pays the bills is the sale of software licenses. Microsoft is a software company.
So why Bing.com and the Yahoo! acquisition-turned-joint-venture?