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Sure, Microsoft would buy Facebook, but management knows Zuckerberg's not going to sell — and unlike Yang, he controls his company's board. As for Yahoo, well, "Yahoo can twist," one source told BoomTown. "Microsoft has lots and lots of other options." Redmond's favorite? Granola. Microsoft's internal plans for a post-Yahoo reality are code-named "Project Granola" because the company now wants to grow its online properties "organically," like every hippy's favorite breakfast food. But to us, the name seems utterly fitting in its blandness: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates told the WSJ that Microsoft's big plans include more "advances" in search, more marketing and more meetings in Redmond, Washington. That kind of bureaucratic strategy sounds like management needs a high colonic, not just more dietary fiber. (Photo by Adry Long)
Microsoft's plan for Web growth, minus Yahoo and Facebook
9:00 AM on Wed May 7 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
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it's online properties > its :)
Real hippies eat brownies for breakfast. And lunch. Oh, and don't forget happy hour.
Maybe they need to do a colonoscopy first ;)
We might as well be talking about my Monopoly game strategy here.
@sample: Yeah, but they are not ordinary brownies. And I don't think they are available even in the finest SV office cafeterias.
But come to think of it, that would cure Baller of whatever ails him.
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