ah, Microsoft’s online division. so proud. so costly. their readership can largely be attributed to forcing the MSN homepage into the default browser of corporate IT managed workstations. now, all they need to take on Google is a good search engine. wait, what?

i was watching the moderately-local news this morning, and the big lead-in to the (alleged) Microhoo! story was “Microsoft may enter the world of online search engines” by purchasing Yahoo.

now, i know it’s just a hack local newscast, but that’s also entirely my point. if a newsroom full of people, probably some who were actually issued the aforementioned IT managed workstations, don’t know about live.com (nee search.msn.com) or worse yet - don’t consider it even a participant in the “world of online search engines,” then there are 2 questions: 1. how much does it cost to keep the lights on @ MSN Online, and 2. can programmers work in the dark?

Posted on February 2nd, 2008 by mike
Filed under: business, web