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372 days ago
The Battleships of Microsoft have clearly set a course. They have left the Pearl Harbor of Vista like proportions. They are headed to Midway Island. Google is waiting, they have been island hopping from Dodgeball island to Grand Central Canal all throughout the wide open pacific. Gobbling up start-up web services and deploying squadrons of office apps in the clouds ready to swoop down with zero like precision. Yes the WWII metaphor may get stretched a bit. But the glory days of Google are officially over. Microsoft now has the battle group intact and is heading to strike at the heart of Google. Based on the latest reports from WinHec and PDC 2008, I do not wish a Netscape massacre on any corporation but I see it coming and there is very little Google can do. The last time this happened Bill Gates turned the battleships around at Windows 95, and used everything it had to crush the new web platform, the browser. It took control, in a matter of years and the rest is history. Despite ...
700 days ago
