Kaiser to test linking health records to Microsoft (Reuters)

[Bill McGonigle]

On Jun 9, 2008, at 16:58, Ben Scott wrote:

>   The above seems like it has nothing to do with the usual reasons
> people give for subscribing to this list.  It also seems likely to be
> the sort of topic that blows up into a long, drawn-out, boring
> discussion, which the vast majority of the 300 or so list subscribers
> have no interest in.

If you want to look for a reason, I imagine it's simply camaraderie.   
Microsoft does whatever it can to always be nipping at Google's heels  
(no matter how tangential a Google project is), just as Microsoft  
works hard to sell against Linux.  It's sort of like hanging around  
the water cooler bitching about black flies.

I'm just waiting for Google to open a pet store in Mountain View just  
so they can giggle themselves silly when Microsoft opens a pet store  
in Redmond two months later.

-Bill

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