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Google Might Disappear in Five Years
An anonymous reader writes "Speaking to a packed auditorium at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., on May 12, Ballmer trumpeted the ripe opportunities around Microsoft's sprawling business and questioned the ability of Google to maintain its edge. Clearly alluding to Microsoft's key Internet search rival, Ballmer said: 'The hottest company right now -- the one nobody thinks can do any wrong -- may just be a one-hit wonder.' According to concept developed by Ballmer, the online search engines represent the key points of the future technology, and the leader in this domain, none other than Google, is destined to perish in less than five years. These predictions belong exclusively to Microsoft's CEO who sounds a little like Bill Gates announcing iPod's death."
If Ballmer had said his prayers, he would have never lost his hair. (I predict)
Mmh, that one is clearly impossible :)
I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of killer sig, which this margin is too narrow to contain.
I respectfully disagree.
Ubuntu ~= LinuxOS.
Easy to use, designed for anyone, free, and only profitable on the back end of the investment. The business models are approximately the same. If someone else weren't in control of / pushing behind this particular project, Google would have started one long ago. They're helping by giving a big shove on what they consider the most important part of this project, the Firefox Browser, but I'd bet on them helping to remove barriers to Ubuntu if they begin to appear.
My little site.
I don't know.......I have a hard time believing that even the androgenous Google would go for a whore like MS Bob.
Seems like Google would go for SAL9000 - what a babe!
"None of us are as dumb as all of us." - meeting mantra