Sr. Pessimist

Why aQuantive Was Worth Twice As Much As DoubleClick

My observation is that the primary means a large corporation has to compete with is capital force. I haven't seen Microsoft innovate much. XBox is just a competitor to Sony and Nintendo. Zune is just a competitor to IPod. I don't know what Live is, if it's not an over-hyped competitor for other large portals. They're simply competing to buy.

I've seen them suffer against Linux. OpenOffice.org, FireFox, Evolution. This stuff just grinds them away and will not stop. I know their weakness. All the big guys have a similar weakness.

aQuantive Will Solve Some Of Microsoft's Web Woes

Google shouldn't be all that hard to kick. It may be a challenge for Microsoft. Their problem is the inherent fraud with Adsense and Adwords. Advertisers want sales conversions to show their bosses. Bosses don't always want to hear how much more money was spent on advertising. They want to hear how much more of their own stuff they sold as a result.

Online Ad Bubble: aQuantive Deal Makes No Financial Sense For Microsoft

It disturbs me how the giants persist without actually developing anything. Who gives them the right to just come and trade a governed currency for some one else's hard work? Microsoft is not rightfully entitled to anything more than what they themselves can develop, just like anybody else. But still they depend on money solving their problems for them. Even an acquisition must be done right, as pointed out above.

It's as if Microsoft isn't even a software company. They're just an illegal trust buying yet more things. Either inept or stupid, they can't connect that innovation drives the web market. They're competing with growing script kiddies who live, eat, and breathe code. Anything they buy, regardless of how many billions, can just be exceeded with a GNU GPL project. This $6 billion buy could go down the drain overnight.