Even if its competition from Microsoft, it will be a good thing, as long as MS doesn't try it usual anti-trust crap
To try and beat Google, they will use any dirty trick (legal or not too blatantly illegal) they know (and they know a lot), like they've always done. It has more or less always worked, brought them where they are now, so why should they change their methods ?
I know it has already been said a thousand times, so let's make it a thousand and one : in the internal dictionary of this company, competitors = "people who must be bought or killed, in any order appropriate". Of course, this is more or less the general rule of every capitalistic entity. They've just been better at it than others in that department. Delivering safe and stable products is a second priority when you have, through other ways, stifled any serious competition.
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Like everything Microsoft does - gold plated dog crap.
... which sells very well.
Even if its competition from Microsoft, it will be a good thing, as long as MS doesn't try it usual anti-trust crap
To try and beat Google, they will use any dirty trick (legal or not too blatantly illegal) they know (and they know a lot), like they've always done. It has more or less always worked, brought them where they are now, so why should they change their methods ?
I know it has already been said a thousand times, so let's make it a thousand and one : in the internal dictionary of this company, competitors = "people who must be bought or killed, in any order appropriate". Of course, this is more or less the general rule of every capitalistic entity. They've just been better at it than others in that department. Delivering safe and stable products is a second priority when you have, through other ways, stifled any serious competition.