Microsoft: Offense is the Best Defense

Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer have long been students of Niccolò Machiavelli. The art of war, he wrote, and they apparently agree, requires that the Prince not dismiss morality; instead, he politically defines it. For cruel action to be effective, Machiavelli said, it must be decisive: swift, effective, and short-lived. His famous book, published in [...]

Defeated in Tech Ring by TKO, Microsoft Hits Below Belt in Street Fight (Part 3)

Understandably, the behemoth from Redmond, WA is running scared. Since, it effectively lost the main tech wars that matter “fair and square” in the tech ring by a technical knockout, it resorted to throwing three devious “below the belt” punches in the street. How so? First, Google made the courageous decision to stop filtering information [...]

Defeated in Tech Ring by TKO, Microsoft Hits Below Belt in Street Fight (Part 2)

Losing Share in the Browser and Email Wars Even though it ships free with Windows, Microsoft has for years been losing market share in the browser wars to Firefox, Safari, and more recently, to Chrome. It’s still dominant, but a far cry from its near-monopoly a few years back. Compare the same stats a year [...]

Defeated in Tech Ring by TKO, Microsoft Hits Below Belt in Street Fight (Part 1)

Microsoft, still the leader in yesterday’s desktop operating systems and software has lost decisive battles in the tech boxing matches, in what is effectively a technical knock-out. As we shall see, it lost it in the tech ring, so it took its fight into the street, and hit Google below the belt. Several times. Losing [...]

Google Pulls the Plug on Wall Street Journal, Restricts Financial Times

The GoogleGazer noticed two days ago that Google searches no longer returned results from the Online Wall Street Journal, even when queries were crafted to elicit hits from WSJ specifically. News Corp., owner of the Wall Street Journal had long threatened to do exactly that if Google refused to pay them for their content. Apparently [...]

Google Gives $2 Million to Wikipedia

Google donated $2 Million to further the development of Wikipedia

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