[Nottingham] [OT] Guardian | Black times for Microsoft

[Martin]

FYI:

Black times for Microsoft
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5071673-103676,00.html>
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Not all is rosy in the garden for Microsoft. Away from the corporate big 
hitters and the courtrooms, danger is brewing for Bill Gates and Co. in 
the shape of small-scale innovation and the open source community.

Google now dominates search, and so far Microsoft's response - the MSN 
Search is a poor imitation. Worse for Microsoft, Google may be 
interested in a whole range of web services, as implied by its new Gmail 
service and its acquisition of Blogger.com - the easy-to-use web 
publishing tool that has helped spark a vibrant new class of website.

Meanwhile, the open source movement continues to trouble the company. 
The Apache web server, for instance, provides around 70% of the web 
pages you read (including these). And now the best web browser you can 
get is open source too, after version 1.0 of Firefox was released 
recently to huge acclaim.

Firefox is technically superior to a stagnating Internet Explorer, which 
Microsoft has paid little attention to since it won its monopoly grasp 
of the browser market. ...

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We may yet make a difference --- (:-))

Regards,
Martin

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Martin Lomas
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