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Microsoft Complains About Google's Monopoly Abuse

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the play-fair-or-i'll-tell-mom dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Frustrated at the FTC's blessing of the Google/Doubleclick merger, Microsoft is complaining to the EU. Its latest filings detail how the merger would give Google a stranglehold on the advertising industry. While these complaints aren't new, the diagram [PDF] Microsoft created gives you an interesting look at the sort of competition Microsoft fears from Google."

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  1. Turtle Monopoly by stevedmc · · Score: 1, Funny

    I am still waiting to see someone claim that "mother earth" has a monopoly on turtles. Btw, I like turtles.

    1. Re:Turtle Monopoly by Bearpaw · · Score: 2, Funny

      I am still waiting to see someone claim that "mother earth" has a monopoly on turtles. Btw, I like turtles.

      It's obviously a vertical monopoly. Because -- as everyone knows -- it's turtles all the way down.
  2. Re:Pot & Kettle? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    you should visit the guy in fohootville. he will give you a lesson in slashdot trolling

  3. Re:Confidential by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Confidential: everything you see has to stay within the observable universe.

  4. Re:Microsoft knows by Anomolous+Cowturd · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft could defeat Google in this arena by bundling Firefox+Adblock with their operating system :)

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    Software patents delenda est.
  5. In response, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Google announces "Freedom to Advertise" campaign. Here's an excerpt from their "Get the Ads" website:

    "The TCA, or Total Cost of Advership, is much higher with a Microsoft ad. You see, the cost of the ad is only a small part of the picture. Someone has got to maintain that ad..."

  6. In other news... by calebt3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...Microsoft recently acquired the copyright on monopolies and is demanding royalty payments.

    1. Re:In other news... by sm62704 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yes I got the humor there but I got to bed late last night. So I shall pedantically point out, as if you weren't just joking, that Parker Brothers owns the copyright to Monopoly.

      -mcgrew

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      mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
  7. Misleading title by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft Complains About Google's Monopoly Abuse

    Of course, the monopoly being abused here is Microsoft.

  8. Microsoft is big and powerful by gilesjuk · · Score: 4, Funny

    So instead of complaining why don't they sort out their own tarnished image and produce a good alternative?

  9. How sad by HikingStick · · Score: 2, Funny

    I big, bad company like Google picking on a itsy-bitsy company like Microsoft. Will there never be justice in this world?

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    I use irony whenever I can, but my shirts are still wrinkled...
  10. Series of Tubes by Ruke · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anyone else notice that Microsoft chose to represent internet advertising as a series of tubes? Apparently, this market isn't something you can just dump something on...

  11. Re:Confidential by Jugalator · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, when I noticed that, I promptly closed the PDF after reading the first three pages. ;-)

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  12. Re:Well if anyone knows... by smittyoneeach · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's also easy to draw conclusions of how cool Microsoft was early on, and how evil they are now.
    Do you mean, "Using the C-language escape character as a path separator cool"
    or
    "Merging disk partitions and formats in a way that keeps people stupid (c:) cool" ?
    But your point is well taken.
    Can't let the bugbear-as-messenger become a distractor, for all the idea of "shooting the messenger" never seemed more appropriate.
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    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  13. even more ironic by dasgeht · · Score: 3, Funny
    The pdf was produced on a Mac:

    ~$ pdfinfo bitsonlinead.prf.pdf
    Title: doc 3.ppt
    Author: Leah Hitchings
    Creator: PowerPoint
    Producer: Mac OS X 10.4.11 Quartz PDFContext
    ...
    probably because MS sent the document in their proprietary format and the NY Times had to convert it - using a Mac - to a more readable form.
  14. Re:Well if anyone knows... by ceeam · · Score: 2, Funny

    Apparently it smoked it.

  15. Re:Microsoft hates competition. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Really? How did it become a monopoly?

  16. OH NO by twentynine · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd be mad if my business finally had competition, too