Microsoft Complains About Google's Monopoly Abuse

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."

Comments

Re:Microsoft knows

[Anomolous Cowturd]

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

In other news...

[calebt3]

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

Misleading title

[Anonymous Coward]

Microsoft Complains About Google's Monopoly Abuse

Of course, the monopoly being abused here is Microsoft.

Microsoft is big and powerful

[gilesjuk]

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

Re:Well if anyone knows...

[smittyoneeach]

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.