DFS wrote:
> SomeBloke wrote:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Mundie: Google owes business to Microsoft
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> "If we didn't succeed at the PC, they wouldn't have a business,"
>>>> Mundie said of Google, in comments made via Webcast at the Goldman
>>>> Sachs Technology Investment Symposium in Las Vegas on Tuesday.
>>> `----
>>>
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> I love this bit
>>
>> [ Quote]
>>
>> He said Google was able to grow so quickly because it introduced a new
>> business model for the Web at just the right time. "It wasn't that
>> many years ago that Google didn't exist," Mundie said. But now that
>> the industry and competitors like Microsoft are catching up to
>> Google's online advertising strategy, "I don't think they can do
>> anything we can't do," he said.
>>
>> In fact, Microsoft's longevity versus its relatively new competitor
>> gives it a substantial advantage long term over Google, Mundie said.
>> "I'd like to think we're strategically open-minded, we've made
>> adjustments [to our business model]," Mundie said. "I'd like to see
>> Google and someone else come up with something that really threatens
>> our business model."
>>
>> [Unquote]
>>
>> Don't you just love it when a Microsoft employee has a sense of
>> humour!
>
> Which part do you think is funny, and why?
The part where he's mumbling from under the sand... where he obviously stuck
his head to ignore reality.
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Jerry McBride (jmcbride@xxxxxxxxxx)
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