Gates on Google

EnsignExtra writes " A long and interesting article in Fortune on the battle between Gates and Google. 'Forced to watch Google's stock soar the way Microsoft's used to, and Brin and Page enjoy their roles as tech's new rock stars, Gates brings to the fight a ferocity that nobody has seen since the Netscape war a decade ago. Their popularity gets under his skin. "There's companies that are just so cool that you just can't even deal with it," he says sarcastically, suggesting that Google is nothing more than the latest fad, adding, "At least they know to wear black."...Trying to build a Google killer, however, has turned out to be truly humbling for Microsoft.'"

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cootervision

[Anonymous Coward]

Am I first?

The explosion reminds us that we must fear

[Captain Poopypants]

An "explosion" the size of a small fireworks rocket at 3 am. Nobody gets hurt, but now the neo-con infiltrated right wing media can again whip up the fear and militant patriotism.

I was already expecting something like this. GWBs approval rate is at all time low, the Abu Ghraib incident is back in public, the Iraqi insurgents have not been defeated, WMDs have not been found and Osama bin Laden is still at large.

It was about time that the government must remind us of the Enemy - that we must fear and stop whining about the erosion of our civil rights and rampart cronyism in the Bush cabinet and just bend over for all the excesses.

Re:Microsoft's Underdog

[Draoi]

Tsk, tsk - copying Apple again? What's with the canine project names anyway?

Re:Gates has shown poorly-camouflaged fear before

[dragoncortez]

And he sweated bullets. Literally and figuratively.

Wow, so did these bullets actually discharge and fly into the audience injuring hundreds? I guess that would have been in the news, so they must have just fallen to the floor. Gives new meaning to the phrase "pocket full of shells."