The MSFT/NBC Divorce

Much like other celebrity splits (TomKat comes to mind immediately) the final split between MSFT and NBC is providing lots of fodder for the rumor mill. MSFT got out of the broadcast part of the deal a while back and now the web part of the deal is also being dissolved. Why the split you ask? Simple, it was another big money loser for MSFT. Word has it that MSFT has lost $10 billion in their online efforts over the past seven years and their stockholders were finally rebelling.

What will MSFT do now? Probably try to set up a stand-alone MSFT web news service that will be unrestricted by the extreme leftist NBC biases. Will it work? Probably not. Why not? Because MSFT is MSFT and they can’t see the forest for the trees.

Here’s some advice to MSFT, free of charge. If you want to succeed then you must tap into the lucrative market that hates NBC and all they stand for. Get together with Rupert Murdoch and Rush Linbaugh and become the web voice of conservatism. Make Bill O’Reilly and Ann Coulter your spokespeople. MSFT news online will become the biggest money maker they have.