http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/Oct 10th 2008 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/Oct 10th 2008 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/Oct 10th 2008 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/Oct 10th 2008 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/Oct 10th 2008 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/
Ohhhh nooooo, the Apocalypse is coming ]]>Oct 10th 2008 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://na.blackberry.com/eng/ataglance/connect/]]>Oct 10th 2008 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/Oct 10th 2008 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/Oct 10th 2008 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/
If Microsoft tries to force the BB business onto the WM platform, they shouldn't waste their time buying RIMM @ $50/share. They should just give the money directly to Apple and Google, and cut out the middleman.]]>Oct 10th 2008 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/Oct 10th 2008 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/Oct 10th 2008 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/


and before you all start flaming, i know, bsod's are few and far between, it was a joke. get over it.

still i think the bbos is awesome, especially what they're doing with 4.6. i think m$ would be stupid to try to phase it out. ]]>Oct 10th 2008 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/Oct 10th 2008 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/Oct 10th 2008 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/Oct 10th 2008 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/Oct 10th 2008 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/
adds CNN's I-Report RSS's feed to reader....]]>Oct 10th 2008 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/Oct 10th 2008 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/
Microsoft will do what it always does in this kind of deal. They will take what's good out of the BB and stuff it into the WinMo. There is no way they will abandon their own OS for the BB OS.

They will transition it all to their own OS and con people into continuing to buy the Blackberry. What was a great OS will slowly become the Microsoft bloated, buggy OS.]]>Oct 10th 2008 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/
I loved the winmo phones that I've owned in the past.... but I love my blackberry and I don't want it to have the same experience. constant mergers/purchases leave no room for separate outfits to innovate.

=(]]>Oct 10th 2008 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/Really hoping that Microsoft snatches them up.]]>Oct 10th 2008 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/Oct 10th 2008 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/compatibility with more than a hand full of hardware
really good support for developpers
gigs of free and opensource software
extensibility
hand-writing recognition]]>Oct 10th 2008 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/
RIM's got it nailed. The last thing we want or need -- as average consumers, business people, and just plain people who want reliable, user-friendly smart phones -- is a Microsoft OS on a BlackBerry.]]>Oct 10th 2008 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/Leaked internal Microsoft documents point to a new project, code named Rim-job.]]>Oct 10th 2008 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/Oct 10th 2008 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/Oct 10th 2008 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/Oct 10th 2008 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/Oct 10th 2008 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/Oct 10th 2008 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/Oct 10th 2008 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/Oct 10th 2008 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/
I'd put my money on New Balance tennis shoes. Probably the velcro kind.
]]>Oct 10th 2008 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/
the fanbois won't have to worry about Apple crumbling. Microsoft will just bail them out...again. Ofcourse iEye probably doesn't remember that happening, he too young to remember that.]]>Oct 11th 2008 6:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/
Blackberry OS is the SH*T.... What next? Nokia/Symbian?]]>Oct 10th 2008 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/
If this goes down, expect WinMo to get Blackberry server support and Blackberry OS to get native Windows desktop support. I wouldn't expect a whole lot else to change.]]>Oct 10th 2008 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/
Now they give'm away when you apply for a Visa card! Their shares are still suffering (from $20-30 to $5). WINMO destroyed PALM and they'll do the same to BB.

But I'm sure it's just another rumor.]]>Oct 10th 2008 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/
This is a totally different situation. Do you really think that Microsoft wants to buy RIM just so they can self-produce a line of WinMo phones (which they could easily do without buying anybody)? Of course not, they want to buy RIM so they can collect the profits from Blackberry.]]>Oct 10th 2008 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/Oct 10th 2008 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/Oct 10th 2008 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/]]>Oct 10th 2008 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/Follow up: why can't RIM afford to let its stock drop so much, are people really going to stop buying Blackberries? It's not like larger organizations or the govt, who can weather this storm, will stop using it will they?
]]>Oct 10th 2008 10:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/
At least, that's how I understand it at a basic level.]]>Oct 10th 2008 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/
BTW this is a nice economics lesson for me.]]>Oct 10th 2008 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/Oct 10th 2008 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/
RIM isn't Google and they aren't revolutionizing their industry....buying that high could never be a good idea.]]>Oct 10th 2008 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/
A company like MSFT would consider RIM and decide that the max they'll pay is $50 based on how much they value the company's assets and brand. A RIM shareholder might value the company very differently, say $135 per share, because based on the information he had at the time, it looked like that's what the company was worth.]]>Oct 10th 2008 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/Oct 10th 2008 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/10/is-microsoft-finally-close-to-snatching-up-rim/]]>Oct 10th 2008 10:04AM