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Google And Microsoft Cross Swords Over Yahoo!

Posted by Zonk on from the just-a-tiny-bit-biased dept.

watzinaneihm writes "In a blog post Google has called Yahoo/Microsoft merger bad for the future of the internet. It is worried about the number of email and IM accounts this merged entity would control. Microsoft has countered with the argument that Google is actually the big bully in this instance, with most of the search market already tied up. The New York Times, in the meantime, has accused Google of a Microsoft fixation."

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  1. Re:Microsoft fixation? by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Informative

    . However this was a long time ago and they did not really have the market dominance they have today. You kids! Haven't you ever heard of MS-DOS? MS-DOS was the dominant operating system for PCs in the 1980s. Contrary to popular belief among people who are either too young to remember or were too computer illiterate in the 1980s to remember, Microsoft did not build its monopoly on Windows. The Microsoft juggernaut built its multi-billion dollar empire not on Windows, but on MS-DOS. Now you kids get off my lawn!
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