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A Look at Microsoft's Regulatory Problems
jrexilius writes: "The Economist has a great article on the state of the EUs anti-trust case against microsoft, background, and future troubles with google. One interesting comment was 'Microsoft is preparing to use its dominance in web-browser and operating-system software to promote itself in yet another separate market--search engines this time'."
I consider Google to be a has-been at this point. Let's face it: 1) it no longer has the usefulness it once did, due to all the spam in it. 2) Google has so far failed to do anything constructive about it. 3) Google's new technologies just aren't that good anymore. Look at Froogle--I have yet to see it perform as well as things like PriceWatch. 4) Google is losing business left and right--most prominent example: Yahoo is now planning to dump Google. 5) Although many (including myself) have applauded Google in the past for sticking to its core competency of searching, it also means they have failed to take advantage of the synergies possible in a full-blown portal, like Yahoo.
I think it is high time Google either get its act together quick, or be finished off by someone who wants to do better, like Microsoft, or Alltheweb.
You must be some sort of lawyer. Perfectly reasonable???? its like saying "after all, Musillini made the trains run on time."
To become a fully-fledged Yank, you'll need to get a weapon. Americans think that having more killing machines magically makes their country safer, and it helps them to walk around saying "I'll put a cap in your ass". Even though the concept of "no guns = no gun-related crimes" is alien to the average Yank, it'll give you a false sense of security in this country with the highest crime rates in the developed world.
As an anti-American troll myself, may I suggest that you remove this point or at least change it? It makes no sense to point out that many Americans own guns. It will only make them feel proud, strong or some other shit you can't understand as a civilized European. If you have to include the gun thing, do it in such a way that it makes clear that someone who owns a gun is probably too much of a wuss and too fat to defend himself with his bare hands. State that martial arts are much cooler than guns and you'll actually get to use them if someone pisses you off in school.
You also should include some ridiculous claim about sex. For example, say that according to statistics, every second American watches gay hairy midget porn on a regular basis. It may be bullshit, but if you do it right, they'll get angry because they think the world doesn't respect them. The patriots over there perceive themselves as some kind of religious, clean Aryan blonde superhero save-the-world type of person, you know.