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Microsoft Hasn't Lost Its Sizzle

Google and Apple, Facebook and Twitter are all the rage, right? Not according to marketing firm Zeta Interactive, which tracked Web posts and found more items about Microsoft than any other company. Google came in second, Amazon third and Apple fourth.  

Posts were also overwhelmingly positive, with 83 percent being nice and 17 percent negative. In fact, the Microsoft comments were 1 percent more positive than Google posts, and far more positive than those about Apple (75 percent).

Posted by Doug Barney on January 06, 2010


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