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A Look at Microsoft's Regulatory Problems

Posted by Cliff on from the looking-in-from-the-outside dept.

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'."

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  1. Google is done for anyway by ZuperDee · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.