My mother knows Microsoft CEO Steve ballmer and she says all he ever talks about is how windows live is going to ruin google and how much he hates google. Microsoft sueing google. Why do they hate each other so much?
2007-03-09 13:59:24 · 7 answers · asked by Jaye 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Corporations
Microsoft enters that battle from a stronghold: its lucrative, powerful business in personal computer software. Google has asserted that Microsoft's next Web browser typically steers users to Microsoft's search service, limiting consumer choice and potentially hurting Google, the leading Internet search engine.
Microsoft says Google's objections are mistaken, and that its new browser, Internet Explorer 7, increases a user's search options.
But Google has advantages of its own, and the Internet services business is very different from the desktop software industry.
The Internet model is one that offers search, e-mail, calendar, contacts and even word processing as services accessible remotely with a PC or hand-held device with a Web browser. Typically, Google invents a new service or feature, makes it a free Web-based service, and only later figures out how to make money on it from advertising of some kind.
That ad-supported software, distributed as a Web service, is a threat to Microsoft's model of selling licensed desktop software, at least in the consumer market. Corporations have so far shown less interest in ad-supported software as an Internet service.
To smaller software companies, Google's strategy appears to have the same competitive impact as Microsoft's tried-and-true practice of bundling more software programs and features into its Windows operating system.
How far Google can eat into Microsoft's software franchise is uncertain. But Microsoft fears that Google could become a kind of operating system of the Internet in the same way that Windows is the dominant operating system of personal computing.
For its part, Google wants to avoid becoming the "next Netscape," a reference to the early leader in the browser market that Microsoft eventually thwarted.
2007-03-09 19:28:07 · answer #1 · answered by Pete P 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because they are good! I work for a communications company and 7 years ago when broadband came out/high speed from cable like road runner. Microsoft went crazy they started giving computers away with stipulations on it that you had to use MSN for 2 years in order to get a 400.00 rebate just to try to block or stop the market from expanding. They don't want anyone to make it in the industry but them! They want to control the market period. I think its low down and I don't like them because of this, but have to use them. This is the pride of their company instead of being the best they rather kill off the best!
2007-03-09 14:07:14 · answer #2 · answered by tressroy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because Google is trying to do to Microsoft, what Microsoft did to IBM.
2007-03-09 16:08:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Google is leading in search , microsoft want to lead that why they hate each other.
2007-03-09 15:23:55 · answer #4 · answered by kumar_subodh1984 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well google is a lot better in searching than microsoft. they are just jealous!
2007-03-09 14:09:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
since google earns more than microsoft
2007-03-09 14:03:12 · answer #6 · answered by gaya.0001 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
because google is loaded with spyware!
2007-03-09 14:06:48 · answer #7 · answered by kyle b 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋