m$ to Google: do not dare take away from us what isn't ours

[Brandon Sandrowicz]

>
> It's much simpler: they think that they are strong enough to fight  
> on two fronts. Losers.

Microsoft isn't "shifting focus" to Google as their mortal enemy.   
Microsoft is just competing in all of the marketplaces that it has  
its tentacles in.  Microsoft has its hands in lots of cookie jars,  
and it's going to fight for all the cookies in all of those jars.   
But while the marketplace would have people play "rock/paper/ 
scissors" to determine who gets each cookie, Microsoft would rather  
just pull out a glock and get all the cookies.

Think of it.  Microsoft is competing with Nintendo and Sony in the  
console market.  They compete with Logitech (and arguably a couple  
other companies) in the user interface device market (keyboards/mice/ 
trackballs/etc).  They compete with Google in web services.  They are  
now competing with Google for enterprise search.  They are competing  
with Linux & Sun for server operating systems.  They are competing  
with Oracle, IBM, MySQL, etc for databases.  The list goes on.  This  
is well more than a 'two front war.'

Microsoft is making lots of hubbub about Google because Google is  
getting lots of good press, and rolling out lots of web services.   
Remember, web services instead of software on your computer is the  
way that Bill Gates thought things were going to go... all the way  
back when they crushed Netscape.  They crushed Netscape due to the  
fear that the browser+plugins would render the operating system  
useless (plugins would allow you to create applications and  
application functionality through the web... basically what AJAX is  
accomplishing now, with word processors, spreadsheets, diagraming  
tools, etc all running through javascript in a browser).  This is  
just Microsoft trying to create a commotion to say, "Hey!  Look at us  
over here!  Google sucks, we will crush them!"

Brandon
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