Is Google the New Microsoft?

ericjones12398 writes "Google's come up with its solution for Dropbox: If you can't buy 'em, copy 'em. The search engine and online advertising giant replaced its popular Google Docs service with Google Drive, a cloud computing storage service designed to directly compete with start up Dropbox. This raises the question, has Google become the new Microsoft? Us ancient folk who remember the 1990s and the Microsoft anti-trust trial can certainly notice some parallels. A big, dare we say monolithic, company doesn't bother innovating on its own. It just waits for other companies to innovate, makes some changes for legally significant distinctions and enters into competition with the innovator. Sound familiar?

Re:Really, Slashdot?

[readandburn]

The better snarky post would have been: "Is Slashdot the new Mashable?"

No.

[Anonymous Coward]

Can we moderate stories yet? Please? Can't we mark shit like this a -1 Troll?

Have we forgotten the order?

[Voyager529]

Google is the new Apple.
Apple is the new Microsoft.
Microsoft is the new IBM.
IBM is the new Xerox.

Thieves of theives of theives etc.

[EdZ]

Because Dropbox was a totally innovative startup, and nobody, NOBODY ever thought of some sort of way of remotely storing files before, no siree! And certainly noone ever had even the slightest idea that synchronising files between different machines could be a useful idea.

Re:Yes

[Chrisq]

2002 I stopped using Microsoft. 2012 I stopped using Google.

2022 stopped using porn, started using viagra.