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P&G Flirts with Google Apps and Scares the Bejesus Out of Microsoft
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| Does Google Apps pose a threat to Microsoft? No way, said Microsoft CEO Steve
| Ballmer in April 2007. He made his point clear to attendees at the USA Today
| CEO Forum: "[Google has] come out with what I might call—what's the
| politically correct way of saying it?—they've come out with some of the
| lowest functionality, lowest capability applications of all time."
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| The room filled with laughter.
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| Ballmer—for one—is not laughing now. That hubris and short-sightedness is
| coming back to haunt him.
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| Microsoft is now taking the threat from Google quite seriously: In July 2008
| COO Kevin Turner was dispatched to consumer-products giant Procter & Gamble
| to dissuade P&G from moving to Google Apps—and ditching Microsoft.
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http://advice.cio.com/thomas_wailgum/p_g_flirts_with_google_apps_and_scares_the_bejesus_out_of_microsoft
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Ballmer Still Searching for an Answer to Google
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| "Forty percent of servers run Windows, 60 percent run Linux," he said. "How
| are we doing? Forty is less than 60, so I don't like it. ... We have some
| work to do."
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/151568/ballmer_still_searching_for_an_answer_to_google.html
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