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There’s this long article

August 31, 2001 by Michael Boyle

over at News.com today called HailStorm promise and threat remain distant. Don’t bother to read it though. The quick summary is, “OK, we at MS don’t know our business model for all this stuff, so let’s just lock everyone in to our world… the money’s sure to come from somewhere, someday.” Followed by a sly wink, of course. Anyone who believes that Microsoft doesn’t know exactly how they’re going to get lots of money from every conceivable source from this whole thing hasn’t been following along.

Tags: Business, Microsoft

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