Microsoft Wants 100 Companies, but to What End?
 

*Source: Wired News (http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/...t-wants.html)*
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Start your engines, entrepreneurs. Or, if they're already started ... take off the parking brake. If Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer is to be believed, then it's a good time to flip a startup. During his Q&A at the Web 2.0 Summit (http://www.web2summit.com/) yesterday he made the ballsy claim that the company is prepared to purchase 20 companies a year, for the next five years.

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