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Ok, Now It’s Done. Microsoft To Acquire Powerset
- byrneseyeview 18y agoCrunchbase says: Website: powerset.com Location: San Francisco, California, United States Founded: October, 2006 Acquired: July 1, 2008 by Powerset for $100M http://www.powerset.com/explore/go/what-is-the-financial-equivalent-of-an-ouroboros%3F http://www.powerset.com/explore/go/what-is-the-financial-equ...
- aston 18y agoJoke would've gone over better if news.yc didn't clip long url's. And if people read more closely.
- wumi 18y agofrom their jobs page MacBook Pros are standard (no more PCs) heh.
- KirinDave 18y agoWe love our mbps. Not just because Mac OS X is nice, but because it's useful to have a relatively similar platform between dev and deploy.
- nickb 18y agoCouldn't agree more. PS: Hope MS doesn't force you to rewrite everything in C#.. hehe. Maybe IronRuby will be good enough down the line.
- Andys 18y agoDon't worry, MacBook Pros will still be standard. Right along side the equally standard WinTel PC running Outlook so they can check their corporate email.
- anewaccountname 18y agoEntourage
- KirinDave 18y agoUhh, it's called parallels. :) Truth be told, we've been using Outlook for email and calendar since day 1.
- aneesh 18y agohttp://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2008/07/01/powerset-joins-live-search.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2008/07/01/powerset... Powerset will join our core Search Relevance team, remaining intact in San Francisco That's good.
- KirinDave 18y agoYes, it is good, although we need to grow our office pretty soon if we start hiring again. It's getting kind of full in here.
- prakash 18y agoMaybe I should change my previous comment on MSFT Plan B for search a bit: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=233260 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=233260 My comments from 51 days back, still stand though: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=186752 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=186752
- markm 18y agoHopefully this won't be the last I hear about them.