[geeks] Flicker users u in arms over MS acquisition...

[Nadine Miller]

James Fogg wrote:
>> I thin MS bought Yahoo in order to get a damn clue about what it is
>> they need to succeed on the Web. They haven't so far and that stand
>> out as a huge blot on a very blotted copy book, that getting more
>> blotted every year. It's kill or cure, IMHO.
> 
> 
> I worked for Vicinity when it was consumed by Microsoft. They had big
> promises, big plans and said they wanted to do right by Vicinity
> customers. In the end they forced VCNT customers to adopt the vastly
> inferior MS geolocation API (MSN Maps, essentially) and pissed off the
> customers who then went to Mapquest.
> 
> They also immediately killed our public free interface (MapBlast), which
> got as much traffic as MapQuest back in the day.
> 
> MS wanted only one thing, one less competitor. They couldn't give away
> their geolocation services (literally), so they bought ours and burned
> it down. I've been inside the machine and from what I've seen I don't
> expect Yahoo will fair any better.
> 
> MS is simply pure evil.

 From a couple of guys I know that were in game companies that were 
acquired by M$, they fair better.  I put this down to M$ knowing that 
they actually have < 0 clues about running game companies.

=Nadine=