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MT+ Microsoft = … MT?!

Wow... this is pretty surprising news. I just learned that MovableType -- which powers this blog and likely millions of others -- is in final talks with Microsoft!Without a hardcore blogging tool to call its own, Microsoft made its usual decision to buy rather than build, giving it near-instant access to the latest craze -- blogging. This positions Microsoft squarely against Google (with Blogger) and AOL (with AOL Journals), and will allow it to more efficiently glean and index content for its new search engine.

As a side benefit, Microsoft will be able to keep the same abbreviation -- "MT" -- though will understandably rebrand the tool "MicrosoftType" by its expected launch date in mid-to-late-July.

Though no press release has been made at this point (at least that I'm aware of!), I have heard this first hand from two of my Microsoft employee friends, and I expect more news to be leaked, er, made public within the next 24 hours

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NOTE: The note above was posted on April Fools Day! For the humor-impaired, this means it was meant in a spirit of goofy fun... and specifically, MovableType is not, in any way, being bought out by Microsoft!

- Blathered by Adam on Thursday, April 1, 2004 at 0:53 [ Permalink | Trackback ]
- Filed under Geekery
- Commented on by 9 folks so far. Scroll down and see for yourself (and join in the conversation!)

Comment from Blinger [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	this is an april fools joke, right? - Posted on Thursday, April 1, 2004 at 1:41 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from member Adam San Francisco [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	Well, decide for yourself, frankly, but I will note that apparently I’m not the only one impressed by the news; apparently the MovableType site (http://www.movabletype.org/) has gotten so many hits tonight that their server has cracked under the load, as evidenced by this error message I got trying to access their forum: --- mySQL query error: SELECT id, member_id, running_time, location FROM ibf_sessions WHERE id=’83f20a12f9468574bdaa02504d38ba13’ and ip_address=’66.167.207.19’ mySQL error: Too many connections mySQL error code: 1040 --- Interesting, eh? Beware of the Ides of April, because in jest there may be truth - Posted on Thursday, April 1, 2004 at 3:13 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from Matt [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	Everyone knows that they’ll be bundling the WordPress blogging app, WordPad, with Windows, if they haven’t started already. Get your facts straight. - Posted on Sunday, April 4, 2004 at 14:48 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from Misangela [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	Oh, GOD, this had BETTER be a joke. If MT is eaten by MicroSux, then I’m gonna have to find another tool. Dammit, after all the hassles and irritation of moving to it in the first place!! Please, please let this be a joke. I know that if MS gets ahold of this tool, it will never, ever work again with any OSX browser. Not to mention the fact that it’ll be used as a marketing tool by MS. This is not good news at all, if it’s true. Well, Adam, thanks for the heads up anyway. Great site. Angela - Posted on Sunday, April 4, 2004 at 16:03 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from :: jozjozjoz :: [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	That was a good April Fool’s Joke! - Posted on Friday, April 9, 2004 at 1:55 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from Luka [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	dood. my heart nearly stopped. ack! - Posted on Monday, April 12, 2004 at 20:33 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from andy [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	it’s only a dream. it’s only a dream. thank god it’s only a dream. - Posted on Friday, April 16, 2004 at 14:37 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from jared Russia [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	He he nice joke! I remember this at next 1 april. - Posted on Thursday, May 1, 2008 at 16:10 [ Permalink to this comment ]

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