Microsoft, So Hot Right Now
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Written By Kate Zimmermann | September 15, 2006 | Share This
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Sheesh, with the amount of press Microsoft has gotten this week, even Paris Hilton is getting jealous. The launch of Live.com, the release of Zune, their Open Specification Promise, the massive Anti-Spam settlement, and a smattering of other court cases and adCenter stories have kept the big M on everyone’s RSS feeds. Keeping with the trend, we thought we’d throw out a few more stories from today:
> Internet Explorer could leave your PC vulnerable to hijacking, according to this thread at Webmaster World. Microsoft’s response is that users should protect their PCs by disabling “ActiveX and active scripting controls.” Uh, is there a Program Wizard for this?
> Thanks to Live.com, it appears that MSN is no longer passing referral info. Translation: you can’t track traffic data, such as the number of visitors, keywords used, etc. Webmasters are speculating that MSN’s choice to block the data is in an effort to minimize the manipulation of results by SEOs. Others claim that it’s merely a Javascript glitch in the new system. Regardless, SEOs are generally peeved by the new lack of data and anticipate that it may hurt MSN’s already lagging market share. Barry Schwartz is tracking the story at Search Engine Watch.
> And finally, today Microsoft released a surprising study claiming that the launch of Windows Vista in Europe could create 50,000 new jobs. Based on an IDC analysis of Windows-related growth, experts anticipate that Vista’s introduction will create a surge in IT employment within the six countries studied (Germany, the U.K., France, Denmark, Poland and Spain). Analysts report that Vista will “infuse significant new energy into the market in its first 12 months of shipment, driving important job growth and new industry revenues.” More specifically, for every one Euro that Microsoft makes from Vista sales, an estimated 13 euros of revenue will go to IT companies. The study continues,
“The launch of Windows Vista will precipitate cascading economic benefits, from increased employment in the region and increased taxes to a stronger economic base for those 150,000+ local firms that will be selling and servicing products that run on Windows Vista.”
Hmm, “what’s good for the Syndicate is good for everyone”, right? No, honestly, we’re quite impressed with Microsoft (note to self: submit transfer application to Europe). They’ve created a product so useful that its release creates multinational economic growth. Now that’s something to talk about.
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