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Microsoft Sees IBM as Biggest Threat

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the steve-jobs-chuckles-quietly dept.

Anonycat writes "Bill Gates gave an interview at the Consumer Electronics Show, claiming that IBM is the rival company Microsoft has their sights set on. From the article: 'People tend to get over focused on one of our competitors ... We've always seen that ... I'm never going to change the press' view about what the cool company to write about is. That's Google number 1 and Apple number 2 ... [IBM has] four times the employees that I have, way more revenues than I have.'"

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  1. It's obviously Tux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll
    Asked if Google represents the most formidable threat of the company's 30-year history, Gates replied with a curt "No."
    As well he should be curt to that question. Asking Gates if Google is his biggest business rival is a troll. There was no movie about Google.

    Hand it to Bill Gates. He's a public icon so people in the opposing camp like to use him at the butt end of the joke. That's called moral. What Bill has is called business. He's been shrewd in his dealings. If he was wrong about 640k, or how important the internet would be, doesn't matter. His company still stayed on top.

    So far. OSS venture capital was up to $500 million this year. :) As long as we don't get screwed by the courts we should have a fair chance at this.
  2. Bwahahahahaha! by Dracos · · Score: 0, Troll
    "We're pretty simple, because 30 years ago we said we were a software company and five years, 10 years from now we will say we're a software company."

    30 years ago they were a ragtag crew of shoddy programmers.

    25 years ago they managed to steal someone else's product and hoodwink IBM with it.

    Now, they are a marketing company

    In 10 years, they'll be in a similar place to where Novell was before MS was ordered to pay them $500M: marginalized and supporting crap nobody really wants.

  3. Yes they're both old slow and bloated by gelfling · · Score: 0, Troll

    Of course IBM is MS's biggest threat. They're both fighting over who can become the slowest most bureaucratic process driven 99 layers of management every year a new paradigm indifferent to customers let's alienate the financial press and ship all of our jobs to Bangalore firm on the planet.