(resent) Ballmer vows to kill Linux giant Google

[Rick Tomaschuk]

The foot up MS has enjoyed has been as a result of working with Intel
combined with IGNORING laws which their country put in place to prevent
"Kings and Rulers". Ignoring antitrust laws has propelled Windows and
Office into the position they now hold. The DOJ refuses to enforce the
law with any teeth so we end up with these spoiled children controlling
the economic structure to their own benefit. Read the penalties in the
US antitrust law which have been ignored. MS should not now exist in the
scale they do. Look at the antitrust remedy...
RickT

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 14:49 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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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