Comments on: Gates makes case for Microsoft's ad business

While acknowledging stiff competition for online advertising, Microsoft is in the ad game for the long haul, he tells conference.
At Microsoft's SAS, it all 'ads' up

[ppgreat]

Let the Marketer Speak

While MS may remain committed to the ad effort (and I snicker
every time they use the word "innovation" in a speech or quote),
they are still a company that plays from the same tired playbook
where everything they do is co-dependent on their own products
and is geared toward maintaining their monopoly in their OS and
Office products.

[Vitamin DK]

Are you serious..?

EVERY company does this!!!....make business decisions geared towards maintaining their position in the marketplace. That's called smart business, that's how you drive a sustainable business. Do you think Google isn't doing this?

Is anyone on here capable of letting go of their MS-hater positioning and be objective?

[abbottpark]

Microsoft will be back in the game soon

Microsoft will merge with Yahoo very soon. You can count on it.

[t8]

That's called innovation.

<quote>While Microsoft is working to catch up to Google in areas such as search, it is also looking to technology to provide new types of Internet content and advertising that it hopes will change the rules of the game.</quote>

That's called innovation and that is something that Google does well and Microsoft cannot.

Microsoft is the most successful company at copying other peoples stuff. Lets be clear about that.

Microsoft rewriting the rules of search and ads? No way. They will just bundle it into the OS somehow. That is true Microsoft innovation and it is also why they are a criminal organisation.

They think innovation is bundling.

[caywen123]

Too late, I already did

Too late! I already counted them out!

[Ted Miller]

An Ad Free Idea

I have no problem if anyone wants to show ads for whatever they want. Personaly I really do not care for ads. Yes the are important and a supplier should advertise, advertise, advertise on their OWN site and hope the search engines find them. I would pay money to become a member of an ad free internet domain of sorts where only ad free websites are allowed. And if Microsft wants to crapware their operating system then I am ready to find a linux distro that won't. PERIOD!