Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 23rd Sep 2005 11:38 UTC
As early as May 1995, three months before Netscape initial public offering sparked the dot-com boom, Microsoft executives were worried that the nascent WWW could one day become a significant threat to the Windows franchise. Another memo is also making the rounds. This internal memo, written in 2005, argues that Google threatens Microsoft and the company's crown jewel, Windows.
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But I think these morons have learned that if they write some braindead headline then sites like Osnews will eat it up.
How many times do we have to go over this? Until google is given a platform in the browser that doesn't suck ass for real applications, e.g. XAML/XUL and many other bits then it means nothing.
The browser is a half a decade away from becoming mainstream to give us that richness. And even then it doesn't challenge windows in the operating system and office components.
I hereby announce that the commodore-64 is ripe for a comeback and ready to challenge Microsoft.