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Comments: 1 +- Microsoft vs. Google: Mutually Assured Destruction on Monday July 13, @09:49AM jmcbain
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jmcbain writes "In an op-ed piece for the NY Times, Robert X. Cringely asserts that nothing good will come out of the ongoing war between Microsoft and Google: "The battle between Microsoft and Google entered a new phase last week with the announcement of Google's Chrome Operating System — a direct attack on Microsoft Windows. This is all heady stuff and good for lots of press, but in the end none of this is likely to make a real difference for either company or, indeed, for consumers. It's just noise — a form of mutually assured destruction intended to keep each company in check.""
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Pffft (Score:1)
So when Microsoft tries to squash Google, it's business as usual. When Google fights back the economy is screwed. I call FUD.
The most ridiculous part is where he says he wishes Microsoft and Google had more guts. Doing ballsy things - whether good or bad - is how those companies became the behemoths they are today. Then his whole point about mutually assured destruction is turned on head when he claims the company that will take down Microsoft probably hasn't been founded yet (implying that Google is not th