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Re:CNN Money: Microsoft is a Dying Consumer Brand by Xuzz on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @11:48AM (#1839094)
The Internet is not the web. Native games with Internet multiplayer aren't the web, they are the Internet.

I don't know a single person using the online Office versions, because, well, they don't compare to the desktop ones.

Yesterday, I saw a graph showing Hotmail losing about 10% market share, mostly to Gmail.

Their new Xbox website broke every existing link on the domain.

Mocrosoft does not get the web, even if they might get the internet.

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Re:CNN Money: Microsoft is a Dying Consumer Brand by Timmy_C on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @12:15PM (#1839201)
The sites built for marketing Microsoft products are often outsourced. So the fact that the new Xbox website was broken in any regard is the fault of a poor marketing manager and not a poor Microsoft developer.
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Re:CNN Money: Microsoft is a Dying Consumer Brand by cryptoz on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @01:15PM (#1839514)
If a software company doesn't build its own software, then there are other, larger problems here.

(Yes, websites are software).

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Re:CNN Money: Microsoft is a Dying Consumer Brand by Tyrannosaurs on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @05:39PM (#1840568)
No, you outsource or buy where it's appropriate. They should no more build every Microsoft website than any other firm should write their own word processor.
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