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Re:Why Steve Ballmer will resign from Microsoft in 2010 by protomyth on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @03:20PM (#864971)
Ok, you pretty much stated my big problem with Microsoft. They don't have a great idea for a new product, but their competitor of the week has a product that they want to stomp.

What business does Microsoft have going after Sony?

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Re:Why Steve Ballmer will resign from Microsoft in 2010 by btilly on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @03:43PM (#865015)
They were head to head in a lot of places. Both wanted to create the next DRM standard, Sony was pushing Blu-ray so Microsoft pushed back, Microsoft wanted to push its software into portable devices, and Sony didn't want them there, and Microsoft was afraid that the Playstation would grow up into a general purpose computer in every household and undermine the PC market.

So Microsoft saw a company going head to head with them in a lot of key areas, and they decided to weaken the threat.

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Re:Why Steve Ballmer will resign from Microsoft in 2010 by gloob on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @03:31PM (#864984)
Costing Sony money would reduce the amount of money Sony could spend on other ventures. At least a subset of those "other ventures" are things Microsoft is actively interested in.

Disclaimer: I have no actual experience with either Microsoft or Sony when it comes to this sort of thing, so I might be way off target here.

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