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Google in Microsoft's sights

It looks like Microsoft intends to go head-to-head with Google. That'll be an interesting fight:

• In the red corner: Google has been a leader in pure blow-your-mind functionality. It attracted vast numbers of users from the entrenched competition by being so easy to use and giving much, much better results. People use it out of choice because they love it.
• In the blue corner: Microsoft has been a leader in software dumping and technological lock-in. It gained an enormous usership largely by removing the alternatives from the grasps of computer users. People use Microsoft products mainly because, for all practical purposes, they have no choice.

Not that I'm gunning for one side or the other, you understand. ;-)