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| Time: 08:25 EST/13:25 GMT | News Source: Seattle PI | Posted By: Chris Hedlund | ||
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Joseph Nocera of the New York Times considers whether Microsoft has changed in the five years since the conclusion of its U.S. antitrust trial: Google This: Is Microsoft Still a Bully? Among other things, he points out the serious threat posed by Google, and considers how Microsoft might have responded before the antitrust trial: | ||
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| #1 By 15406 (216.191.227.90) at 5/25/2005 1:00:28 PM |
| #1: the more a politician denies, the more likely it is to be truth. The more an IT journalist says "This is da bomb", the more likely that it isn't. I also don't know where this Google nonsense comes from, but I keep seeing it. I'm confident that MS is after Google not for any wacky OS plans, but because Google has both the top position in a lucrative search market and the mindshare of users. Unfortunately for MS, it can't leverage its Windows monopoly to force its way to the top. It has to play by survival of the fittest. |
| #2 By 15406 (216.191.227.90) at 5/25/2005 2:57:25 PM |
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#3: I do believe Gates has an "I must win" compulsion, but it's constrained by reality. They've been fighting with Oracle and IBM for what seems like ages in the DB space (Ellison's quote, paraphrased, is priceless: "It's not enough that I win, everyone else must lose"). They tried to compete with Quicken but couldn't take the #1 spot, so tried to buy them. US Gov't said 'Nope", so MS is the perpetual also-ran in personal finance. What they do have going for them is patience and almost endless cash to prop up money-losers for as long as it takes. All they have to do with Intuit, for example, is to copy them, have a better coat of paint on the product, undercut Intuit's pricing model heavily, and wait for Intuit to do something stupid (XG? Product activation?). As I've read, MS has made a lot of money just by waiting for their competition to implode. And yes, there are quite a few others. Particularly in space where they can't hammer their way in via the Windows desktop.
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| #3 By 9589 (68.17.52.2) at 5/25/2005 7:14:49 PM |
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Here is the stats that perhaps the pundits ought to look at before applying pen to paper (in order of search engine rank):
Google Revenue for the last four quarters: $3.79B Yahoo Revenue for the last four quarters: $3.9B MSN Revenue for the last four quarters: $2.4B Revenue source: Their respective K and Q SEC filings. Search rank source: IDC Google derives its earnings almost exclusively from search and search related advertising revenue. Both Yahoo and MSN are much more broad based. They derive their revenue from three principle sources: search advertising revenue, merchandising, and hosting. From an investment perspective, Google is a one trick pony. Should they falter, the business collapses. While one could argue that should the other two falter in the search area the other businesses would be hurt; the entities themselves would survive. Regarding Google hurting Microsoft's desktop hegemony- yeah right! lol |
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