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Billy Boy Upset Over Google's Popularity
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http://www.fortune.com/fortune/techn...0065-1,00.html
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Anyone notice something wrong with this quote?
But Microsoft isn't exactly in fighting trim. Its ambitious new operating system, code-named Longhorn, is more than a year late, even after having been scaled back. Linux, the free operating system that Gates once scoffed at, is fighting Microsoft for share in both the server and desktop markets, forcing the company to do the unthinkable: offer customer discounts. Last year it had to spend $1 billion to rewrite thousands of lines of code to make its programs less susceptible to viruses. Its Xbox gaming console is winning raves from players but has yet to make serious money. Meanwhile, Apple has stolen the show in online music with its hugely popular iPod and iTunes Music Store. Plus, the recently released Firefox browser, which can be downloaded free, has forced Gates to reconstitute an Internet Explorer development team. Indeed, four years have passed since Microsoft released a piece of software that generated the kind of buzz Google seems to generate every month.
Can we say, anti-trust?
(Last edited by alphasubzero949; May 5, 2005 at 02:41 PM.
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What would it cost MSFT to buy Google, I wonder?
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Microsoft couldn't buy Google... no chance the governments would let em... not to mention I think the guys who started it still own controlling shares.
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Bill Gates is on a mission to build a Google killer. What got him so riled? The darling of search is moving into software—and that's Microsoft's turf.
How dare they! Everyone knows M$ should be the only company allowed to write software.
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i think google is in this for the money but from what i have seen and my personal experience with them... they care that the ideas they make are good and are executed well. which makes them the anti-MS as it feels MS products lack soul.
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Originally Posted by chris v
What would it cost MSFT to buy Google, I wonder?
Originally Posted by Superchicken
Microsoft couldn't buy Google... no chance the governments would let em... not to mention I think the guys who started it still own controlling shares.
Why would the gov't have a problem? Yahoo!, despite all the Google talk, is as as economically strong as ever. It's not like if Google got acquired we'd be left with nothing. But, yes, the founders still own > 50% of the company so they'd have to agree to sell, which they wont. Actually, GOOG is trading at around $225 these days, so I'd say for about $1,000 per share, they'd be game. (The scary thing is that MS can afford that with a combination of stock and cash.)
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