The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, SomeBloke
> <stuff@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:08:12 +0000
> <13sbnq75sb2rv62@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> 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!
>
> I'm not sure the MS employee is making a joke here. Be afraid.... ;-)
>
> To be sure, Microsoft might be able to spin this to their
> advantage, but I doubt it'll work for the cognoscenti.
> The totally ignorant morons who don't know a data byte
> (or, for those old enough, a vampire tap!) from a vampire
> bite, maybe.
>
> And there's a lot of ignorance out there.
>
There certainly is, and most of it comes from Mush Brainfart, Abdoh!
Bonetart and Hardon Quit. Who can blame them though as their sources seem
to be vomited forth from the well of incomprehension.
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