ALL of its problems?
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You might think this is the holiday season, but for Microsoft it is open season.
Yes, open season at pinching Google's lower cheeks, tweaking its upper ones, and generally trying to suggest that it's the most evil company since, oh, Microsoft.
Just how open this season is was shown by Microsoft's jefe of PR, the beautifully named Frank X. Shaw.
As Business Insider reports, Shaw saw a New York Times article describing Microsoft's hiring of PR combatant Mark Penn and his breakfast leaped toward his nose.
When indigestion hits you like this, you must immediately leap to Twitter and expunge your most bitter bile.
So Shaw filed his nails and targeted Google PR person Jill Hazelbaker.
She, you see, had been very, very rude in the Times article. When referencing Microsoft's new combative ways, she offered: "Our focus is on Google and the positive impact our industry has on society, not the competition."
What a relief that Google's focus is not on making money.
Shaw wasn't quite au fait with this relief. He introduced... [Read more]
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