Microsoft may have an innovation problem, but it has hubris nailed.
Take, for example, John Mangelaars, a Microsoft regional vice president, in an interview with CIO magazine. Mangelaars dispenses with niceties, arguing that Google and Microsoft are the only two games in town and that the stakes are immense:
[Between Microsoft and Google it will be a] Battle of the Titans for who becomes the platform of the world.
And you thought it was just software....
In this case, Mangelaars may not be stretching the truth. There is a great deal at stake, and it really is about who serves as gatekeeper of the Web.
My question? Do we really want either company filling that role? Microsoft monopolizing the desktop did no one any favors, and Microsoft or Google monopolizing the Web won't be any better.
More: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10450725-16.html
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Take, for example, John Mangelaars, a Microsoft regional vice president, in an interview with CIO magazine. Mangelaars dispenses with niceties, arguing that Google and Microsoft are the only two games in town and that the stakes are immense:
[Between Microsoft and Google it will be a] Battle of the Titans for who becomes the platform of the world.
And you thought it was just software....
In this case, Mangelaars may not be stretching the truth. There is a great deal at stake, and it really is about who serves as gatekeeper of the Web.
My question? Do we really want either company filling that role? Microsoft monopolizing the desktop did no one any favors, and Microsoft or Google monopolizing the Web won't be any better.
More: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10450725-16.html
