Mozilla president kicks Ballmer, trashes DRM, quotes Spiderman
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| Later he goes further: “We are not against Microsoft, but we are against
| Microsoft’s monopoly [of the browser market].”
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| So is Steve Ballmer a block on innovation at Microsoft? “Could be, yes,” says
| Nitot with a smile.
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| He relates his view - held by many - that Microsoft’s attack of the web is
| directly related to the threat the Web poses to its desktop applications, as
| evidenced in recent times by Zoho and Google’s apps.
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| But has he heard of the Blue Monster movement inside Microsoft to engage
| better with the open source community (also at Gaping Void)?
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http://uk.techcrunch.com/2007/09/13/mozilla-president-kicks-ballmer-trashes-drm-quotes-spiderman/
Last week:
Google Apps Catches Flak
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| Microsoft is launching an anti-Google propaganda campaign.
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http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2007/09/11/google-apps-catches-flak/?mod=yahoo_hs
Microsoft Retaliates With 10 Reasons Not To Use Google Apps
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| This, of course, brought Google even closer to rivaling Microsoft's Office
| suite, which has now spurred a reaction from the Redmond software giant.
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| No, its not new software or updates for the popular productivity suite, but
| rather Microsoft's own reasoning on why businesses should NOT use Google
| Apps.
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http://www.profy.com/2007/09/11/microsoft-retaliates-with-10-reasons-not-to-use-google-apps/
Will Google Loosen Microsoft's Grip on Large Enterprise?
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| It’s got to be frustrating to sit in Redmond today and watch the world go by
| without having much of a grip on it anymore.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070910/46884_id.html?.v=1
Out of the office
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| Nobody's better at defending its turf than Microsoft of course, so this will
| not be a quick or easy war.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/commentary-watch-out-microsoft-google/story.aspx?guid=%7BD0EF1345-0BC4-459A-A780-8F861CEEAE40%7D&siteid=yhoof
http://tinyurl.com/2lxuct
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