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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:In fear of getting utterly cut up... by SCHecklerX · · Score: 0, Troll

    But at least in this case, Yahoo! lost its postition because it was out-innovated by the young google. Yahoo got complacent. When did Microsoft ever actually get to their position by having a better product than their competition?

  2. The more MS tightens its grip, the more ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    ... star systems will slip through their fingers.

    I'm particularly thinking that their INSANE obsession with Google will finally wreak the Microsoft-dominated landscape of desktop applications. MS is soooooooooo damn obsessed with "getting Google (I'm beginning to think of Richard Nixon's dark obsessions every time I hear Ballmer opine) that they're pretty much giving up the ghost on the desktop.

    I think much of the surge in usage for Apple's Mac OS X is a reflection of Microsoft's total lack of attention to the desktop and, to a lesser degree, their Justice Department/EU woes in using their OS as a wedge against competitors.

    Someday soon someone will take a fatal shot at Exchange and then MS really will be totally fucked.

    And the world will be a better, sweeter place.