Google the next Microsoft?

Hi am doing a paper for my english class and its a general opinion paper. I was wondering if anyone would be interested in giving their opinion for my paper. By posting you are giving me the right you use your statement as a quote.

Basically i am just wondering what poeple think about on whether google will become the next microsoft and what i mean is basically a big powerhouse conglomerate who dominates their markets by buying out the competition, etc. Basically it can mean whatever you want it to mean also. So any thoughts or opinions?

hmm... that was rude....
imo, google won't get that big, unless it directly competes with M$

lol. Rob put it quite eloquently, I thought.

Ok, ok. Take it easy. Please don't launch into some verbal spray aimed at the regs down here. You really ought to have taken the less-than-10-mins required to peruse the stickies.

Now, that said, you're writing a "general opinion paper". Tremendous. And your thesis is one that sees you arguing that Google will be the next Microsoft -- a multi-national corporate behemoth -- and that it will dominate any competition, etc..

Well, I think it could be quite easily argued that you're talking about chalk and cheese; that your two case studies are, in fact, mutually exclusive.

Sure, one can adequately argue that from a business model perspective, the two companies hold a few traits in common with most other multi-nationals, regardless of the business type: aggressive, not risk averse, innovative, dominant in the marketplace, well financed, good corporate structures, etc..

However, from a core business viewpoint, Google is not in the same league as Microsoft. That is to say, in analysing the history of the two companies -- in particular, Microsoft -- that the two aforementioned companies do not share all that much in common.

This is particularly the case with their respective product lines. Microsoft's monopoly began with a product range that included -- but was not limited to -- its Windows based products; this was especially the case for its Windows operating system. When your only major world-wide competitor is Apple -- another innovative and user-friendly company -- than your company can be categorised as having hit the corporate equivalent of the market "stratosphere"; that it is unequaled in size and wealth.

Google's web innovations and its recent purchase of the ever popular YouTube see it being a very different company to Microsoft. It's the product lines and end user products that heavily distinguish the two companies, and if I was writing the paper than I would pursue this line of thinking.

I have a rough idea on the financials of the two companies only because I've read the gross financial reports for the two companies as presented by the Australian Financial Review, a half-decent financials paper over here that has a good international sub-section. I would think it would be most necessary for you to analyse the two company's financials because it is there that you will find some enormous differences: global markets penetration, financial stability, stock price, acquisitions, future directions, etc..

In distinguishing the two, I would think it absolutely vital to devote a section of your essay to the founders of the respective companies. No human minds are exactly alike and no human story is exactly the same so a little history on the two companies respective founders would go a long way to arguing the differences between the two corporations.

Look, it would be very easy to write a left oriented paper calling the two companies "corporate twins" that "dominate" and "control" their respective markets, but I would think that to be, at least in my mind, to be a little simplistic and wrong.

Research, research, research! There's an enormous amount of data on these two companies and a good essay is always founded on quality research!

I had that coming.

I just don't want the young guy to go out there and write a leftist's diatribe on how these two companies are evil conglomerates, etc, without first coming to that conclusion on his own via an exhaustive research process.

The volume of propoganda on these two companies -- from both liberal and conservative business bloggers -- is enormous, as my quick Google of the two companies produced.

He'll need to sift through a large array of rubbish pieces to start to get down to the facts associated with the respective companies; the crux of his essay, if you will.

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Yeah. No Baked Ham innovation points for you.

...*mounts prone newbie victim*...

*...grabs seat, takes a beer...*

Your incontinence makes it unlikely that you'll ever be 'dry'.

Don't underestimate the power of the whistling foot of doom. He'll kick you up the arse so hard your mother will feel it.

Careful, man. RC was in 'Nam.

I'm still trying to figure out if his leg atrophication was down to Agent Orange or Coors.

Chemically, they're not dissimilar.

Aerodynamic? How do you explain the whistling noise?

*wonders why RC is drinking Beer and not Coors*

Never a days rest..... AYWF today & started the Coors early....

The desktop apps that are part of MS's core business model are under threat, not from other vendors of the same apps, more from web based services like Google apps. A lot of industry analysts are also predicting the usefulness of an OS as limited, soon to be replaced by a bootable browser that lets you access the apps most businesses need. There is a lot of land grab going on in the browser market for that very reason, MS has gone as far as to remove WGA from IE 7 for that very reason.

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*carefully staples slices of ham onto Anath, then bastes with Oprahs vagina musk*

*cooks Anath on a rotisserie over open flame until gurgling and moaning starts*

*places Anath on large sterling silver tray with side of carrots and a pint of Guinness chilled to 45F*

*lights candles, set's The Cure's "Pictures Of You" on repeat*

*puts apple in Anath's mouth, garnish in his ear, rings bell*




*runs*

*salutes the innovative and creative KingLoftusXII*

*points*

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Horse radish with Pork??

Unlike the wife who just waits for the simple cash..

...*crashes into cymbals*...

That was amazing, man! *sniff*

1 pound worth of C4 isn't a lot, is it? I mean, it has to be pretty expensive. What does a Kilo go for over there?

Oh, you used the pounds for mass, not your currency. Sorry, you had me confused for a moment...

Now there's a good use of C4......