Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Microsoft vs Google

These days in the computer biz two companies are buzzing bigtime. Microsoft (who made working on computer user friendly) and Google (who made everything on the internet just a search engine away).
Its the modern mahabharat, or I would brand it as World War III, where the two giants are fighting to prove their supremacy in this computer age. MS is pumping billions of dollars on advertising of Windows and Word to keep us trapped in a world where everybody else also uses Windows and Word.
On the other hand, Googleplex have been running an innovation a minute machine which is gaining the appreciation of common man, day in day out. Products known to us like gmail, orkut, gtalk, gearth, froogle (leave apart google the search engine) are innovation of sorts, but products lesser known and in their BETA phases like Writely and numsum are there to stay till internet is replaced. Whatsmore, there's always a buzz surrounding everything Google does, without Google spending a dime on any sort of marketing/advertising unlike the fellow competitors.
No doubt, Microsoft has been doing the catch up and falling further behind. Probably, are trying to play the windows game in a google economy.
Its so much fun to be sitting here, working on Windows platform and posting on a Google product. I don't know who will have the last laugh, but us (customers) will surely be benefited in this war for global software supremacy.

2 comments:

Satish Reddy said...

hey nice veiws...i too have the same opinion...i love google products and their strategies..Did u heard this newsMicrosoft entered into ad bussiness with msn as heart ....But its for sure nothing beats google search engine..

Prat the Brat said...

They are trying to enter the google world, which I dun think they will ever be able to compete in. Did you hear about windows live!? I was reading an article in Business world, seems interesting.