Could Google Be The Next Microsoft?
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The latest pick to head a government office by President Obama is Christine A. Varney. If she is confirmed by the Senate, Ms. Varney will be the chief in charge of the antitrust division of the Justice Department. Before her selection by the President, Ms. Varney had mentioned that she though that Google and their dominance of Internet advertising, could pose a problem and be monopolistic.
Her opinion is that Microsoft is old school and that Google could be the next threat. If her assessment is correct there could be investigations into the business practices that Google employs. But is it fair to compare Microsoft and Google?
In a Bloomberg article it states that:
While the remarks were made months before Obama picked her to head the Justice Department’s antitrust division, the comments signal her approach to the job if confirmed by the Senate. The Microsoft case, brought in 1998 by the Clinton administration, could have led to the breakup of the software giant and was a landmark in antitrust law.
In her remarks at the American Antitrust Institute, Varney advocated aggressive enforcement of antitrust laws to curb the conduct of individual companies that dominate an industry. She didn’t return a reporter’s telephone call seeking comment today.
What do you think? Is Google a threat? Should the search giant be curbed or did they just invent a better mouse trap?
Comments welcome.
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DJ Dark
February 18th, 2009
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deffinately i am starting to get annoyed with microsoft to be honest mainly windows live messenger i am trying to test some software my mate made using visual basic and oh i need windows live one care i don’t want it i am happily secured by about 3 anti-virus softwares and norton firewall and another one i can’t remember so i think i am safe as far as i can say i think that Google should go for it! and i will support them all the way i am only 13 and i am already annoyed with microsoft! infact i am thinking of changing to MAC not as many annoyed users with Apple sorry for going off subject but to get back on it my last words for this post will be GO ON GOOGLE AND I HOPE YOU SUCCEED
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