Search and destory : Its Gates Vs Google!

May 21st, 2005 at 11:39pm

While browsing came across this wonderful 6-page articleon fortune.com titled : “Why Google scares Bill gates”

Its a nice read. It basically gives an insight into whats happening in the Microsoft camp!. Some interesting snippets for the article :

Google was a web search business, yet here on the screen were postings for engineers with backgrounds that had nothing to do with search and everything to do with Microsoft’s core business—people trained in things like operating-system design, compiler optimization, and distributed-systems architecture. Gates wondered whether Microsoft might be facing much more than a war in search. An e-mail he sent to a handful of execs that day said, in effect, “We have to watch these guys. It looks like they are building something to compete with us.”

Yes……….after reading the following line.., i really thought about it!. Yes. its nearly 4 years!

Indeed, four years have passed since Microsoft released a piece of software that generated the kind of buzz Google seems to generate every month.

See these numbers!

Before Google’s IPO last fall, Microsoft executives dismissed this brain drain as a function of greed. But when the exodus continued after the IPO—especially when Marc Lucovsky, one of the chief architects of Windows, bolted for Google—it was clear that Microsoft had a bigger problem on its hands. As of March, roughly 100 Microsofties had left for its search nemesis.

All of us would agree about this statement about microsoft, which has proved wrong in case of google!

The company hasn’t always played by the rules, but when it has gone after a market, it has done so quickly and aggressively. Current and former executives of companies like Apple, WordPerfect, Lotus, Novell, and of course Netscape can attest to that.

hehehe. Talk about Plagiarism!

“I remember when [Payne’s team] showed off their first prototype in early 2004—people laughed because it was so much like Google,” says a former Microsoft executive. “We had copied them. That’s not how you lead.”

Wake up call ?

“Here Microsoft was spending $600 million a year in R&D for MSN, $1 billion a year for Office, and $1 billion a year for Windows, and Google gets desktop search out before us? It was a real wake-up call,” says an exec.

This quote made by a google executive is really cool!. I love this one :)

“One of the criticisms that the media makes is to compare Google to previous-generation companies. Google is trying to solve the next problem, not the last problem.”

Read the full article here.

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