Positioning in Small Business Marketing
Ethical marketing or evil genius?
December 22, 2007 on 11:01 am | In small business news |Whether you love him or hate him, you’ve got to admire Bill Gates of Microsoft®.
In less time than it takes to wear out your family room sofa, Mr. Gates dropped out of Harvard and now controls more than 9 out of every 10 desktop PCs on the planet. That’s an awesome amount of power left in the hands of just one company…
… Especially when you consider news that the software giant plans to test an $80.00 a year subscription service to fix the very same Microsoft software responsible for the overwhelming epidemic of malicious spyware and viruses gripping your computer.
Is this audacity to the max or just savvy marketing?
See what others say about Microsoft’s business ethics at…
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