Remember when Microsoft and owner Bill Gates, was the bully in the neighborhood? Bloggers and others were anti - microsoft? They were set to take over the world?
Microsoft was armed with a piles of cash and the Windows operating system that dominates office computing. Bill Gates was expected to take over our living rooms and our lives through media. Remember this?
Now the player everyone is fearing is Google. Google armed with so much cash, it does not know what to do. Bill still has $40 billion in cash sitting there and can do almost anything, except maybe take out Google.
So the new Gorilla, Google, what will they do? The owners are set on making their image stay good, but can they maintain a good image as the big guy on the block taking over everything with free services?
Experts and those in the know are talking about Google and what they plan on doing this year. The main line of thinking is that Google will release its own computers, with its own operating system. This will drive the price down. Also what is being calledd “Google Cubes” may make a splash.
Bear Stearns analysts speculated in a research report last month that consumers would soon see something called “Google Cubes”, a small hardware box that could allow users to move songs, videos and other digital files between their computers and TV sets.
Either way, once again the big bully seems to want to take over all media and with it our lives. Can Google manage this large feat better than Microsoft has done?
Just imagine this far fetched idea - Google and Microsoft together as a joint venture, or even a merged company. Anyone say Monopoly?
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