The media loves battles and they seem to create them out of air.
Microsoft's bread and butter is selling MS Office, Windows, Exchange, SQL Server and related products to big business.
Google's bread and butter is providing context aware ads. Recently to increase the amount of content they have jumped into a bunch of different areas. The only direct competition with ms competition is around the employees, msn and hotmail.
Does google threaten MS Office or any of the above mentioned tools? No. Google apps will be a tough sell outside of the consumer and the very small business.
Google won't stop Microsofts bid for 100% of the large corporate data center. Only IBM, Oracle, and intertia can slow it (but it will take a while for them to kill all the MainFrames around).
Posted by Anthony at September 25, 2005 05:01 PM