Will Microsoft Buy EA??

Published on September 24th, 2009

Posted by John C Dvorak in General

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# 1 ECA said, on September 24th, 2009 at 5:54 pm

buy ea??
They have more protections then MS does..

# 2 qb said, on September 24th, 2009 at 6:14 pm

I know I’m reposting, but this is just cracking me up.

# 3 Lou Minatti said, on September 25th, 2009 at 3:28 am

I think they’ll buy Palm for a pittance, just for the new OS, and ditch Windows Mobile.

# 4 oora said, on September 25th, 2009 at 3:36 am

Not everything(every company) in this world can be buy especially by Microsoft. I hope still see label EA than MS in the future.

# 5 pedro said, on September 25th, 2009 at 3:44 am

I think MS might buy EA. It’s in the game.

# 6 pedro said, on September 25th, 2009 at 4:32 am

In related hilarious Tech news. Nintendo’s strict family-oriented rules for their Wii online content has been completely jumped over by Nintendo itself.

They just send messages to Nintendo owners regarding a new downloadable game called You, Me and the Cubes. Here’s an except of the message:

“In You, Me and the Cubes, you must create and then place little people called Fallos…”

Yeah, they don’t know what the word mean. Hilarious!

This one’s even better:

“To clear the stage, you must throw the required number of Fallos safely onto the most appropriate locations of each cube. Take care that your placement doesn’t disturb the cube’s balance, or your Fallos may fall of”

IOW, have safe sex and don’t disturb your partner or it will fall off.

I wonder if you can Wii with your Fallos

# 7 pedro said, on September 25th, 2009 at 4:40 am

One more pun: It seems that the price of the Wii was not the only thing that was lowered at Nintendo.

# 8 ECA said, on September 25th, 2009 at 7:49 am

EA, Atari and MANY of the older companies are only distributors, they create Very little software. They pay others to make it or just BUY it out from the makers…and resell it.

# 9 Angel H. Wong said, on September 25th, 2009 at 10:38 am

#7 Pedro,

But consider this. Nintendo has always sold its consoles at a profit whereas Sony and M$ have sold theirs at a loss.

# 10 deowll said, on September 25th, 2009 at 7:09 pm

Since you can see the icecaps with a small telescope from earth water is not news unless they mean it’s more or less everywhere a few feet down?

John if you are willing to set up a dummy account you can use any name you want other than anonymous because that one is sure to be blocked. ?8^)

The dork mobile might make a good robot base for indoor use.

Gatner is a profit? Is he going to work for the star?

# 11 deowll said, on September 25th, 2009 at 7:11 pm

Okay I misspelled prophet or maybe not? The modern ones are mostly in it for the money anyway.

# 12 Glenn E. said, on September 26th, 2009 at 12:50 am

Microsoft needs to keep buying up other companies, because it’s out of ideas. So much easier to buy the rights to others’. Flight Simulator was an early one. I have an earlier version of it, before it became a M$ product. Long before terrorists ab-used it for training. I flew between the TWA towers many a time. But never into them.

# 13 Glenn E. said, on September 26th, 2009 at 1:21 am

The computing cloud is a load of crap. If you think ISP are capping, restricting bandwidth, and blocking or slowing down P2P, now. Just wait until everyone wants to operate their system in the “cloud”. It’ll be like turning a 2.6Ghz PC, back into a 800Mhz PC, with all the packet corrupting and server bottle-necking.

The whole “cloud” idea might be practical for networks like in colleges and big businesses. I’m sure they already do something like that, to some extent. But for millions of users, to do anything useful in the cloud, via the Internet. Dream on.

# 14 pedro said, on September 26th, 2009 at 7:18 am

#9 From all the posters here, I thought you would be the one to catch Nintendo’s blunder with that new game’s description.

# 15 ECA said, on September 26th, 2009 at 9:12 am

PROFIT/LOSS??
only in the eyes of the creator..
Just because you put hardware together worth $200, Sell it for $300, and the MSRP was SUPPOSED to be $500..does not mean its a loss.
EVEN if its ACTUAL COST, and you loose no money.. companies think of it AS LOSS.

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