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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?

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What if the Cloud really is a disruptive technology?

It’s been called that enough times. Usually, though, those using the term never actually read Clayton Christenson’s seminal work in the field, The Innovator’s Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business.

These folks will tell you “disruptive technology” means a technology that disrupts a marketplace. The original and useful meaning is quite different.

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