Google goes after Microsoft

The Beat · Joined: 14 Apr 2006 Posts: 359

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/art...f=/c/a/2006/05/11/BUG3RIPBPC1.DTL

Google Inc. took direct aim at rival Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday by unveiling several search products while simultaneously calling the Redmond, Wash., software giant a "convicted monopoly."

Sergey Brin, Google's co-founder, made the unusually harsh comments about Microsoft at his company's annual press day in Mountain View.

He voiced concerns that Microsoft may use illegal tactics to give its own search engine preferential treatment in an upcoming release of its Windows Vista operating system for computers. He then recalled Microsoft's past legal battle with the now-defunct Netscape Communications Corp. over Internet browsers in which Microsoft was found by a federal court to have abused its power.

"We certainly see a history with that particular company, Microsoft, behaving anti-competitively, being a convicted monopoly," Brin said. He then talked about Google taking preemptive action against any future abuse by Microsoft, including lobbying the Justice Department.

Microsoft has denied any intentions to engage in anti-competitive behavior.

obmar · Site Admin Joined: 14 Apr 2006 Posts: 5697

When companies grew so big that they are the Government

The Beat · Joined: 14 Apr 2006 Posts: 359

indeed, obmar

This is so much ado about nothing. Google already has its spot guaranteed among the heavywieghts, and Microsoft ain't budgin'. In my class, I tell my students that Bill Gates once worked for a crazy guy from New Mexico who built and patented the first "PC." It is said that coworkers would find him passed out in the morning on the floor of the computer room, a twinkie in one hand.

That was in the late 1970s.

By 1990, he was the richest man in the world.

michaelclark · Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Posts: 3

Hi obmar...

I have heard that Google is comping with "Google Chrome Operating System" in 2010 that's, Google has such statement regarding Microsoft.

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