Could Google become the new Microsoft? A year ago I would have dismissed the idea as preposterous, but now I am not so sure.
First of all, let me make clear that I am not talking about Google usurping Microsoft in its present markets. But times have changed since Bill Gates were a lad.
Microsoft’s fortunes grew with personal computers or, more specifically, supplying the software for what used to be called "IBM-compatible PCs". It is easy to forget that 20 years ago there were a number of standards competing for dominance. (Of the others, only Apple survives.)
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