(resent) Ballmer vows to kill Linux giant Google

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 02:26:07PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   DOS 1.0 was a joke compared to CPM-86.

Dos 6.22 isn't a joke?

>   Windows 1.0 was a joke compared to Apple.

Windows isn't a joke compared to Apple?

>   Access 1.0 was a joke compared to dBASE.

Access isn't a joke?

>   Internet Explorer 1.0 was a joke compared to Netscape.

And internet explorer isn't still a joke (maybe not compared to
netscape, but still).

>   MS-Search 1.0 will be a joke compared to Google.

And continue to be so most likely.  Just look at MS's encyclopedia and
such.

>   Do you detect a common theme here?  MS has enough money coming in from
> their twin-towers of Windows and Office, that they can afford to charge
> ridiculously low ad rates on their search pages, and drive Google out of
> business, while at the same time putting out fix after fix to their
> search engine, until it's "good enough".

Unfortunately many things Microsoft does are still bad even when they
are good enough to get most people to use them (by bundling them
together or making them incompatible and hence interdependant on other
MS products).

Remember Bob?

Lennart Sorensen
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