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Posted in Antitrust, Deception, Law, Microsoft, Novell at 7:53 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: More book-burning phenomena and how it affects perception of Microsoft
SEVERAL DAYS ago we wrote about attempts by the Microsoft-faithful to rewrite history as a by-the-way in new articles. We gave as an example Enderle performing an act of Netscape revisionism and there are many similar examples that we presented this year [1, 2, 3]. Here is an exercise in blaming Netscape for its ‘failure’. The following news article totally neglects to mention anti-competitive conduct from Microsoft, for which there was a prominent conviction in court. Novell is also mentioned.
> Novell made the same mistake. Both companies bought second-rate competitors to Microsoft in a number of market segments, just to get in the game. It spread precious resources too thin.Instead, they should have focused their resources where they had a lead, and a chance to win — Netscape in Browsers, Novell in Network software. History tells us that the upstart must focus and win decisively in that first battlefield, before moving on. Or they almost certainly will be crushed, like these two once high-flying companies.
The mistakes were not strategic. Microsoft violated the law, so legal harbours were all the victims had left and the only reasonable ‘strategy’.
In a similar vein, there is a reversal of roles in the press, which pretends that Yahoo! is now begging for Microsoft’s help. The press says nothing about the fact that Microsoft’s deliberate agitation and destruction was responsible for internal shakeups and shakedowns that led Yahoo! where it is today. See for background:
Microsoft Fires Up Proxy War Against Yahoo as Debt Looms OverKing of Hypocrisy(ahoo!)Microsoft Fight Against Yahoo Board Gets UglierMicrosoft’s Proxy Fight May Have Begun Weeks Ago, QuietlyMicrosoft’s Latest Ugly Tactics Against Google, Yahoo, and VMwareAs Yahoo Proxy War Looms, VMWare and Nokia Return to One’s MindMicrosoft Executives Penetrate Corel, Yahoo; Is Novell Next?What if Microsoft Owned Yahoo (and the US Government Establishments’ IT)?LawMedia Group May be Another Confirmed Microsoft AstroTurfing AgencyMicrosoft Executives Land Inside Microsoft RivalsUpdate on the Microsoft/Yahoo Situation: Google-Yahoo Alliance?Microsoft: 800 lb. GuerrillaWho’s Bugging Google and Apple? (Updatedx2)Video: Bloomberg on Yahoo/Google/MicrosoftEye on Microsoft: Windows Under Attack from Critics, Cyber Criminals; Yahoo! Besieged by MicrosoftThe Microsoft-Influenced US Regulators Wrong on Yahoo!Microsoft Hijacked Yahoo! from the Inside (Updated)Newly-Appointed Yahoo Puppet: Let Microsoft Have Us
Now that Microsoft has managed to overthrow the leadership of Yahoo! and install a Microsoft partner (Bartz), things change a lot.
> Unless there is some major glitch, there might finally be a search and online advertising deal struck between Yahoo and Microsoft at long last.
Will the story about Microsoft’s corporate harassment of Yahoo — as publicly told by Jerry Yang — be remembered at all? █
“[Microsoft's business strategy is] copy the product that others innovate, put them into Windows so they can’t be unplugged, and then give it away for free.”
–Oracle Corp Chairman Larry Ellison
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