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Ok, Now It’s Done. Microsoft To Acquire Powerset

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Maybe I should change my previous comment on MSFT Plan B for search a bit: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=233260

My comments from 51 days back, still stand though: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=186752

If there was a prize for precognition, you would win it. :)

:-) Congrats! Hope you guys made some money off the sale :-)

btw: you might want to change your profile from Powersetter to softie;-)

from their jobs page

MacBook Pros are standard (no more PCs)

heh.

Don'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.

Uhh, it's called parallels. :)

Truth be told, we've been using Outlook for email and calendar since day 1.

Doesn't Office run on Macs natively?

Entourage sucks.

Entourage

We 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.

Couldn'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.

Crunchbase 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-equ...

Joke would've gone over better if news.yc didn't clip long url's. And if people read more closely.

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.

Yes, 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.

Hopefully this won't be the last I hear about them.

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