Thursday, June 25, 2009 10:17 AM/EST
How exactly is it in Microsoft's best interest to help Google perfect a product designed to tempt Outlook users to use Gmail? Microsoft's readiness to help Google fix a sync tool designed to crack Microsoft's Office fortress shows that the software giant isn't that scared at all.
Thursday, June 18, 2009 12:04 PM/EST
I don't believe Google is hitting any panic button yet, but let's keep it real here. Google's lone sustaining revenue stream is its search advertising. Past search bumbling aside, Microsoft's size makes Bing a threat to be respected.
Monday, June 15, 2009 12:00 PM/EST
Microsoft put in the effort and Bing is nice, but it's no game-changing search engine in the shadow of Google. Or is it?
Wednesday, April 01, 2009 1:20 PM/EST
HP is testing Android as an operating system for its forthcoming line of netbooks, according to several published reports. Far from being a welcome sign of relief in an otherwise dry period for Google, this is yet more evidence that...
Monday, March 23, 2009 10:07 AM/EST
Microsoft is closing its adCenter analytics beta. The adCenter community blog is trying to put on a brave face, but this has to be considered a gigantic failure and a huge win for Google and Omniture. The insights you've contributed...
Friday, March 20, 2009 3:59 PM/EST
Poor Steve Ballmer. He's so befuddled by Google (and his inability to defibrillate Microsoft's stock price) that he thinks the new Undo Send Gmail function works for when he puts his foot in his mouth out loud as well as in e-mail form.
Monday, March 16, 2009 5:50 PM/EST
Fellow GARDers*, it is said that the gears of the gods grind slowly, which means that while they may take their sweet time, they inexorably get wherever they intend. * GARD=Google Attention and Reaction District Google is dead serious about...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 10:39 AM/EST
Wired has a piece on how Microsoft, AT&T, consumer rights groups and grandmothers (just kidding... or am I?) are gunning for Google. How much will the rest of the world be able to accept that when the wolves beset Google's door this year, as the Wired piece suggests? I don't know, but I'd hate to have to move my Web content to another repository because a bunch of whiny politicians succeeded in suing Google into stasis.
Sunday, January 18, 2009 7:43 PM/EST
So Microsoft is again being called to the anti-competition carpet by the European Commission, this time over the bundling of its Internet Explorer browser with its Windows operating system. I have no evidence Google is griping about IE in Europe, though it wouldn't surprise me and I fully expect it.
Thursday, January 08, 2009 1:51 PM/EST
If you're a pragmatic person, you might choose to believe that the motives of Verizon, Dell, Sun Microsystems and others that opt for Microsoft or any other option over Google in search are monetary. But I think Verizon and others are sick, and perhaps more than a little wary, of Google's broadening expansion online.