By: Roger Darlington
Google vs Microsoft
The “Guardian” today devotes a full page in its main news section to the growing threat to the Microsoft hegemoth posed by the young upstart Google. The feature suggests that: “Already there are whispers in California’s Silicon Valley that it is becoming too much like Microsoft, the technology firm that every teccie loves to loathe”. It quotes Bill Gates who, in an interview with “Fortune” magazine earlier this year, said that Google was “more like us than anyone else we have ever competed with”.
The “Guardian” even devotes a leader to Google, concluding: “It would be very sad if Google, like Microsoft, were to turn from being considered “one of us” to “one of them”. But to conquer the world and retain the faith of its groupies may be a Holy Grail that not even Google thinks it is worth searching for.”
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