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from Brooklyn, NY
On top of old smokey...
from Brooklyn, NY
So just to clarify: You're saying it's long... long... long...
Right?
I think I'd go with one "long". There's still plenty of uncertainty in this prop, but I'd rather be holding it long because the evidence seems to be pointing that way... and there's really no evidence against it.
WIRED has a report today that Microsoft is using the name KUMO.com already inside the company.
There are links to news stories inside the prop page, but here is one for you lazy types.
www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2009/03/reuters_us_microsoft
Back when I wrote the bit above I suspected that MS might have things a bit more fleshed out than (in retrospect) they actually were. We have a lot of news popping up about Kumo now, with screen shots and news releases that it is under development, but one nagging phrase appears in all the announcements; that the Kumo name and domains are all being used for "internal testing".
Which means Microsoft has not announced a beta testing. They did this with LiveSearch, announcing the beta on March 7, 2006.
www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/mar06/03-07WLSBUnveiledPR.mspx
They did not formally change MSN search to Live Search until September 11, 2006, announced with the uninspiring but familiar "MSN Search is now Live Search" slogan.
That's six months between announcing the beta and the formal change.
It's March, and there's no beta.
"This proposition will pay off at POP$100 per share if Microsoft’s Live Search is renamed “Kumo” by April 2, 2009 at 3 p.m. EST."
I'd say this prop is seriously short, short, short.