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- ScornForSega, on 11/12/2007, -9/+75So basically Google isn't ahead of Microsoft in any way online except with things that are online.
I love Steve Ballmer. The ***** that this man spews is really entertaining. I'm pretty sure he believes it himself and it's observing that kind of delusion that makes it worth reading about. - lateralus, on 11/09/2007, -1/+35PS3, xBox 360 and the Wii are only ahead of the Atari 2600 in controller design.
- Berkana, on 11/11/2007, -11/+45Mockery is all Steve Ballmer has proven himself good at. If the leadership at Microsoft were held accountable for the ridiculous travesty of an OS that is Windows Vista, as well as the ridiculously overpriced recent aquisitions as knee-jerk reactions to Google's moves, pink slips would fly, starting with Ballmer.
Steve Ballmer can go ahead and bury his head in the sand when people ask him about the threat posed by Google and Apple. We'll bury the rest of him soon enough. - Scruffydan, on 11/10/2007, -4/+37Google is way ahead of MS in email (gmail IMAP is awsome) calendars, web based office tools, advertising ... the list goes on.
- treskel, on 11/11/2007, -3/+29Ballmer is right, they're definitely miles behind in chair throwing
- ytsohptwhere, on 11/10/2007, -3/+25Just like Windows Vista is ahead of Windows 98.
- Flamekebab, on 11/10/2007, -2/+21Did web-based apps molest you as a child or something?
- Flamekebab, on 11/10/2007, -5/+22Hotmail is ***** compared to Gmail.
Now the question is..will you admit you were wrong? Or slink away like the little bitch that you are hoping we ignore your stupidity? - Kelmon, on 11/10/2007, -0/+16It's entirely possible that Steve Ballmer has been borrowing Steve Job's patented Reality Distortion Field since his own perception of what's going on is way the heck out there when compared to everyone else. This either means that he's a visionary or just plain mental. You decide...
- Calcularius, on 11/09/2007, -1/+16...except that people use it
- orangysb, on 11/10/2007, -0/+14When you're talking about a company's worth you look at its market capitalization, not the share price. So whether Microsoft has had stock split or had its share price over $700 doesn't change the fact that it's still larger than Google in terms of market capitalization for now.
- inactive, on 11/09/2007, -2/+16Uhh...Google is far moe than just a search engine.
- Compserd, on 11/10/2007, -4/+17By the time Microsoft gets their act together, Google will have already owned 99.9999% of the Internet, if not the entire world.
- placidified, on 11/09/2007, -4/+17Developers Developers Developers
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE - placidified, on 11/09/2007, -1/+14"We'll bury the rest of him soon enough."
do we have enough sand for that? - GregR, on 11/10/2007, -0/+12I'd love to see a listing of Ballmer's quotes over the past 5 years or so, and see how they relate to reality.
- I'm pretty sure he said that by this time MS would have wiped Google out of the search business.
- Then there's the quote about the iPhone not being of interest to anyone.
I'm sure there's others but it'd be interesting to pull it all together. - peterjmag, on 11/10/2007, -0/+12It's your lucky day: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Ten_Absolutely_Stupid_Q ...
- qpn6ph9q, on 11/10/2007, -3/+14Here are the undeniable STFU facts...
Yahoo's market share is currently 4% while Hotmail's market share is 2% and Gmail's market share is 0.5%. However, despite the fact that Yahoo and Hotmail have been in business for 9+ years and Gmail only came out of beta in February THIS year, Gmail is growing more rapidly than either. According to Hitwise research, US visits to Gmail platforms increased 17% between the months of February 2007 and April 2007 alone.
Gmail's demographic is both younger and richer than the demographics attached to Yahoo and Hotmail, making those users a better target for advertising revenue. In April this year, 54% of Gmail visits were from users 18-34. Only 44% of Hotmail users and 42% of Yahoo visitors were from the same age group. Also, 18% of Gmail users had a household income of $100,000 or more compared with 15% of Hotmail and 13% of Yahoo users. Gmail users are also more active on social networks (3.7%) than Hotmail (2.2%) or Yahoo (1.2%) users. - chris9902, on 11/10/2007, -9/+201) learn how the stock market works
2) STFU - Flamekebab, on 11/09/2007, -2/+12"Not one other service has ever made one dime for Google."
I'd love to know where you get the figures to support that statement. - ikamos, on 11/10/2007, -3/+13"Yeah so Google is better than us only where it matters. That's fine, no big deal"
- inactive, on 11/10/2007, -16/+26Wait a second...you equate stock price with company worth?
Had Microsoft never split their stocks like Google hasn't, it's be worth WELL over $700 moron. - Flamekebab, on 11/09/2007, -0/+9Ah. "Ahead" is a bit of a vague term to use, really. Presumably that's why Ballmer chose it.
- qpn6ph9q, on 11/10/2007, -1/+9bingobongony is chanelling Ballmer - man that must smell
- inactive, on 11/10/2007, -2/+10if you think 700USD per share for Google is impressive, try looking at the price for berkshire hathaway. 132000 USD. does that mean they own both Google and Microsoft? not really. Warren Buffett has a lower net worth than Bill Gates.
Rather than compare stock prices, compare market capitalisation. Google's at 200+ Billion. Microsoft's at 320+ Billion.
bingobongony and chris9902 getting dugg down is because 99% of digg users don't know ***** about stocks. - Berkana, on 11/09/2007, -0/+8No. We'll have more than enough well loved but retired iPods from previous design cycles for that.
- RpgActioN, on 11/09/2007, -2/+9He's not saying it isn't *****, he's saying, in terms of usage, it is "ahead" of gmail.
- BinaryDelt, on 11/10/2007, -2/+9Dugg for pic of Ballmer. LOL
- qpn6ph9q, on 11/10/2007, -5/+12Agreed. And there is one thing that Google owns right now that Microsoft has and will never own... morals
- Flamekebab, on 11/09/2007, -0/+7I obviously only used like, two days ago! Stop assuming.
For the amount you support MS' ventures, I hope you're getting paid. - qpn6ph9q, on 11/09/2007, -0/+7Hotmail has been around for 8+ years. Gmail just came out of beta this February. If Gmail keeps growing at the rate it has to date it will surpass hotmail in the next 24 months.
- Kelmon, on 11/10/2007, -2/+9Is it me or is Ballmer just "Embarrassing Dad"? Seriously, the stuff he says and does has just got to make his kids cringe. Just imagine him doing the Monkey Dance at the school disco...
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 11/10/2007, -1/+7Truth.
Microsoft is worth more than Google. - inactive, on 11/10/2007, -2/+8Ehh, e-mail? I don't think anyone cares about hotmail.
- Giga, on 11/10/2007, -3/+9Gmail is out of beta? It still has the beta tag on the logo...
- Flamekebab, on 11/10/2007, -2/+8How could anyone forget Microsoft's pioneering online map service?
- init100, on 11/10/2007, -0/+6I wonder if he paid for a patent license...
- thomasprebble, on 11/10/2007, -1/+7The company to topple Microsoft won't be one that makes an operating system. This was predicted years ago and it may well be coming true now.
- Berkana, on 11/10/2007, -3/+9Ah, Sony. The new heros of the information age spring forth from ground made fertile by the rotting corpses of the titans of yesteryear. Sony and Microsoft are both past their best days unless they can re-invent themselves like Nintendo and Apple.
- init100, on 11/12/2007, -1/+6Just because they were building their own proprietary network, called the Microsoft Network (MSN). After that failed and everyone got onto the internet instead, MSN became a brand for Microsoft's online services.
- geminitojanus, on 11/10/2007, -2/+7I think the quote goes:
"The Internet? We are not interested in it" -- Bill Gates, 1993 - wafflez, on 11/10/2007, -2/+7why are bingobongony and chris9902 getting dugg down?...If you want to compare stock value and net worth, well just learn how the stock market works first and then make your assertion...Also, you're missing the point of this article >_>. It's supposed to accentuate the arrogance of steve ballmer, not compare stocks...(By the way, microsoft is richer, but that is irrelevant so I don't get why you mentioned it...)
- crakbot, on 11/10/2007, -3/+8I'll get dug down for this and I'm no Microsoft fan but last quarter MS had record profits...And from varied sources and all this coming from a company all the Google and Apple fan boys say is dying. Google is cool right now but 98% of their profits come from ONE product, Adwords. They have no other profit generating products worth mentioning. Sure they have beta this and beta that, and upcoming phones and upcoming social networks but until they have another actual profit generating product, they are simply a one trick pony. A rich one trick pony, but still a one trick pony.
- Stonekeeper, on 11/10/2007, -1/+6The only people who don't want online office apps is microsoft. And don't talk to me about office live. It's only a web drive, nothing else. You still need windows+office on your machine. It's as far from online as you can get without pulling the damn cable out.
- igotnotime, on 11/10/2007, -2/+6This will make CEOhh no he didn't for sure!
- Aharoni, on 11/10/2007, -1/+5Thats not entirely true. Software isn't a product, its an industry.
Microsoft has Operating systems (Vista, XP, Mobile, server...), Office, Exchange, hardware (Xbox 360, etc.), Messenger, video games, downloadable content (movies and Tv shows on Xbox live), programmers' classes and certifications, various software patents that are embedded in various products (isn't the PS3 using some sort of sound codec developed by Microsoft) and the list goes on and on and on.
All of Google's products are basically a platform to get more users which turn into profit through... AdSense. - michaelzhao, on 11/10/2007, -1/+4wow, leave it to digg to criticize "M$" in any way possible. I'm not a supporter of Microsoft by any means, but seriously guys, when was the last CEO to openly say "Oh, my major competitors product is far better than mine. My product sucks."
Yeah, there isn't one, so before digg cuts its panties caught in a bunch about a "dying company". Consider this, Microsoft's 2006 revenue was 44 billion while their 2007 revenue is over 50 billion. - MeatBiProduct, on 11/10/2007, -0/+3ummm last time I checked you still needed an O/S to even get to the internet
- chrispr, on 11/10/2007, -0/+3I dugg you, because even though you go farther than I'd agree, the main message is true. I think we're all geeks, so we react to this a lot quicker than most people.
In the real world, Microsoft still rules the market. Even if we wish alternatives would become more apparent. -
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