Remember the Eye of Sauron? If you say “Eye of Sauron” ten times fast. It sounds like “Google”.
Well, not really.
But you get the point.
Google whetted the appetites of advertisers this week by introducing its “ability” to predict disasters and epidemics marketing opportunities for drug companies.
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Google fired a warning shot basically saying: ” if you want to know how to spend money during these tough times, you better use AdWords … or DoubleClick … * giggle* … oh we own that too…”.
Basically, Microsoft and Yahoo! have no rebuttal for two reasons: one Microsoft trying to bluff Yahoo!, the other reason is that Yahoo! is trying to call Microsoft’s bluff. So, Google is digging its own road right now to provide a clear product offering for advertisers who will see their ad budgets tightened by this new depression economic downturn.
Bill Gates will step down today as head of Microsoft. A good enough reason as any to sell your Microsoft stock. When people bought the stock, they were buying Bill Gates. They were investing in Bill Gates. The investment paid off.
Windows is still the dominant operating system.
He is now spending more time on charitable things.
Here comes more psychobabble. Of course, I could be wrong.
But, Herman Melville may have been right.
Steve Balmer should be focusing on improving Vista and bringing Microsoft into the new age of network computing and mobile productivity, but he’s still pissed.
He’s still pissed that Google stole so many Microsoft rockstars and gurus that he only wants to hunt down Google even if the ship goes down.
What are you talking? Yes, what am I talking about?
Microsoft will enter proxy battle for shareholders’ hearts at Yahoo! … This will take money from an already contracted market capitalization.
So, the total revenue of last year, minus the amount of people will not buy Microsoft Vista this year, minus all the people who will not buy Microsoft Office this year, minus the mount of people who will not buy a Dell or a Gateway times some fudge factor means….
… Microsoft might be putting all the chips in to get Yahoo! oh, dear. that socks, so…
If this bid fails, Microsoft will not have enough capital or clout to block foreign acquisitions of tech companies. (well, Microsoft has infinite money. … haha, no it doesn’t. if you hypothecate real estate that is equal to $0.00, you need to pump up the stock and reduce costs — fire them, fire them all — to survive until the next quarter)
So, you see… Steve must capture his whale. Poor guy.
However, to tell you the truth… it’s getting ugly folks.
In case you are just joining us today, here is the backstory… Microsoft and Google continue to fire “warning” salvos.
Sun buys MySQL, shoring up network computering. Oracle grins. Microsoft panics that things are shifting towards network computing faster than expected.
Microsoft reacts by bidding for Yahoo! at premium to speed up the deal during an election year. Google issues a hurriedly-written release objecting the merger.
And then, (just like in Final Fantasy when Active Time Battle in Final Fantasy), Google tells students, “you know what, dudes? You really don’t need to buy Microsoft Office this year since we are going into an economic slowdown. Get Google Apps Team Edition instead.” Teeheee.
Google is trying to push Microsoft’s share price (total market capitalization) down by decreasing the number of students buying Education Editions and Multi-Seat Versions of Microsoft Office purchased this quarter.
Here is an excerpt from the press release:
Google Apps Team Edition lets colleagues and departments at work, or
study groups at school, immediately begin sharing information within a
domain. In addition, the Team Edition can easily be upgraded to Google
Apps Standard, Premier or Education Edition for full administrative
control, such as the ability to set default sharing options, decide
which applications are available on the network, or determine who has
access.
