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Google's Patents Reveal Strategy To Beat Microsoft

Posted by Zonk on from the stretch-the-para-digm dept.

linumax writes "According to 'The Google Legacy,' history is about to repeat itself. From the article: 'Microsoft today is where IBM was years ago. And Google is in a position to do to Bill Gates what he did to IBM. The result could be a new industry kingpin. Arnold, author of The Google Legacy, said in an interview this week that it appears that Microsoft doesn't understand Google in much the same way that IBM didn't understand Microsoft 20 years ago. "It will be the Googleplex from 2004 to 2020 - a network paradigm," said Arnold. "It will be enabled by Google's approach to innovation."'"

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  1. Re:Not really accurate by pha777 · · Score: 0, Troll
    MS at the begining of the internet was not aware, was not even worried.

    They were severals months later, maybe a couple of years.
    They were so later, that some guys could build yahoo without MS, and some others could build google, ebay, amazon, etc.

    If MS had been aware, they could today be the owners of all of that.
    But ... we already know what happened.

    MS ... was late, too late, fatally late.

  2. Re:Not really accurate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    But most of my work is in LaTeX or plain text files.

    Hee hee... I remember LaTeX... Back in my university days... Now I'm in the real world, though, and don't see any of that anymore. Thanks for the brief trip down memory lane.

    No, wait! Just yesterday I received a LaTeX document by email containing a contract for the installation of my windows & doors, and then later on another one from a friend with a LaTeX document with the feature list of Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5... Yeah right :)

    Just pulling your leg...

  3. sell MSFT, buy GOOG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fortunately I sold my MSFT stocks some time ago. Google(GOOG) has been doing tremendously well and it's probably an excellent time to load up on some more Google stocks before they climb even more.

  4. Re:Not really accurate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I hope you get modded up.
    Why all comparisions are forgetting the fact that IBM stills in the biggests?
    Eventually in ten years PC, Windows and office becomes less important than cell phones and online apps, but until there, with two trillion, MS will adapt and eventually they becomes dominant in this areas too.