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

prakash · on July 1, 2008

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

KirinDave · on July 1, 2008

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

prakash · on July 2, 2008

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

prakash · on July 2, 2008

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

wumi · on July 1, 2008

from their jobs page

MacBook Pros are standard (no more PCs)

heh.

Andys · on July 1, 2008

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.

KirinDave · on July 2, 2008

Uhh, it's called parallels. :)

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

aston · on July 2, 2008

Doesn't Office run on Macs natively?

jfarmer · on July 2, 2008

Entourage sucks.

anewaccountname · on July 2, 2008

Entourage

KirinDave · on July 1, 2008

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.

nickb · on July 1, 2008

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.

byrneseyeview · on July 1, 2008

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...

aston · on July 1, 2008

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

aneesh · on July 1, 2008

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 · on July 1, 2008

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.

markm · on July 1, 2008

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