Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
RBW wrote:
I've always thought that companies that Microsoft targeted as
competitors found themselves in an intense fight to survive as a
business but Bill Gates just enjoyed the competition like a street
fight, and the competition never knew what hit them. It appears to me
BG's dander is up and he's ready for another street fight and Google,
unlike Novell, Sun and even IBM, is a street fighting SOB just like
BG is...
Maybe. I'm not convinced that we have seen Google tested yet and how
it responds to pressure.
Google has a single revenue stream. That stream is under active
attack from more fronts than just Microsoft. The converse is not true.
-a
This was put much better than I did above...
"I think his point is that it no longer *matters* what OS is under the
browser. Browser + Javascript -> the new virtual machine."
-Stewart
Word processor (and other "Office" docs with local and online copies), and a
number of other current Beta apps and apps on the drawing board of this sort and maybe
Google scares M$ because there is almost no stand alone M$ app that can't be done in
virtual mode...
RBW
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