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Hopefully they don't "kill" Google because its probably the leading search engine out there.

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That stinks. Of course, if both sides lose a lot of money, then Yahoo! or Apple might seriously hurt the surviving company or even take it over. It's not a wise idea unless one google is not doing very well and Microsoft can take it out easily. Ballmer sure is dirty. And Lee can retire after working at Google for a few years and be worth a lot! I hope neither side will win, but i think Microsoft is more important then Google.

I hope they don't get taken over by another company because they're so damaged by the Lawsuit. Or maybe I'm just acting pesimistic, although I don't think this'll turn out to badly for either.

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If I was a betting person I place my bet on MicroDot for they already won the fight against the US goverment. Yes the walked out with a slap on the wrist. But if they would of gotton what you or me had gotten they would of really been hurt then. To microdot they could lose a few million and never know it was gone. what they are hating is that they lost a couple of brains. They were out payed and waited till there contract was up. Hope microdot gets buryed yet I know they always be on top. Look at netscape they fought microdot and they lost and think are now owned by microdot. sun micro systems belive the same happened to them. So what makes you belive google stands a chance. Microsoft already fought the goverment and other companys and won. So I place a bet on microsoft.

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I say let them try. Competition is the driving force between the users getting better products, better services, better value, etc. Competition drives humanity to better themselves...and God knows M$ can better themselves So yes, let them try, Google's big enough now to survive an onslaught by M$ probably as long as they don't underestimate the threat, so I say let the games begin.

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Dammit. I wanted to work for Google one day.

Microsoft complains too much. First, their getting killed by the Mozilla Firefox browser, and now this? It's just a damn shame.

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Goddam them! I don't know how they plan to kill google but I'd like to see those guys try.

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the miscrosoft will win all the way , but from my side i want to be google as its a biggest search engine which we r using and the information u get from google is quite sufficient for u . But i agree with knighteagle as i also think microsoft will be winner all the way

he has more information i think

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Microsoft's definitely got the resources and a very nice past record in lawsuits .. but I sorta hope Google takes it to 'em. I see a lot of cool things coming outta Google - Gmail, Groups, News, Froogle .. not to mention a nice search tool. I hope for Google, but sadly, vote Microsoft claims victory.

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I'm personally gonna stay on the fence for this slugfest. With 2 companies of this size, with this much muscle...its going to be a definet fun to watch. Although MS has the track record Google has the public backing I'd say.

Yes I will definetly be watching this one.

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Hi There,

I don't think that there is any reasons to be worried about Microsoft can "kill" Google of several of reasons.

Reason #1:

Someone has an product that are better designed and more public than Microsoft can handle. They did tried to "kill" Mozilla and then Netscape, did it worked? Nope, Mozilla really rules with their Firefox and Thunderbird applications and I think that it's just an question about time when they "kills" Microsoft's own IE (That actually are build on an Mozilla engine), then did they tried to kill Unix OS and here can we just conclude that with all these Linux distributions that are on the marked, and even for free, might be harder for the Multi Commercial Microsoft to handle. Google is still growing stronger and I think that the reason for that would be....

Reason #2:

Heavy weight engeneering in light weight design. What I mean about that is, that in all these years that I've been computering, does Microsoft's applications only growing heavier and heavier, without caring about that people don't buy new hard ware each sixth month, and new extremly expencive software every year just cause it behave someone else. I really think that it's possible to use old technology, and just fix the bugs instead of waste it to design new ones with new bugs, and that fact does I think that Google had understood as far as Mozilla and the Linux people has.

Reason #3:

I think that it has to be the time to Microsoft to accept that there is other people on the market who is better to design software than Microsoft themselves, and instead to fight to start to cooperate and integrate to make much more friendly platforms for all.
Ex. let the office application work with PHP and MySql or use Firefox in future versions of windows, and then use the energy to make Windows more stable and at least cheeper so normal regular people can get it.

So far, so good....

I can give more reasons here, but I really think that we as customer have the power to change the evaluation in this cold branch, as without us there wouldn't be any industries....

So let us fight the power...

Cheers!

Jens

 

 

 

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