Microsoft pulls ad after Net faux pas: “We kind of figured out that really isn?t the best way to go about communicating.” In other news, the Seattle Seahawks kind of figured out that losing isn’t the best way to go about winning.
Day: October 14, 2002
News: Open source closes in on Microsoft: “Now they look at something like Windows XP and say, ‘OK, it’s more stable, but I have to buy new machines. I don’t think Microsoft has ever made a version of its products that used less resources than the previous version.’ Or, ‘Windows 2000 Server looks really good, but all I need is a Web site, and I can take this old 486 and I can put Red Hat Linux and Apache on it and have a Web server up in no time at all,'” Cherry said.
The Motley Fool now says Netflix is a good stock. Fool.com: Netflix: a Blockbuster? [Fool on the Hill] October 14, 2002