Gates on Google: What, me worry?

Source: News.com

Gates' mantra hasn't changed much in 20 years: The PC is the center of the computing universe, and Windows, along with Office and other products, represents the best platform for new software development. What is new, and is much in evidence this week in Los Angeles, is the growing influence of Web-based development. In that realm, Google has emerged as the poster child for a new wave of applications assembled from the piece-parts of several Web sites. No Windows necessary. Microsoft has its own ideas, of course.

With Google, there are rumors about them being interested in that services piece, but they really haven't done that much. Our search API is way better than their search API. Clearly, they are working in that area. They haven't done as much on the server piece. They had a Google server, but it was very bad at corporate search. That did not work well at all. That's the only place where I think they have done any server-type piece. Yahoo doesn't think of themselves as a platform company. I don't think you will ever have the Yahoo PDC. Google, because they are in the honeymoon phase, people think that they do all things at all times in all ways.

Clearly an interesting piece of article on the big boss comment on the Search Major. Here are my views on Google and Microsoft.

A very positive thing for Google is clearly their innovation. Google keeps bringing new ideas which deserve a good pat for their hard work. Many analysts talk good about the google’s growth over time and project them as a real threat to Microsoft. I personally think “Google is not mature enough to compete with Microsoft apart from the search technology”. Though there are rumors and good amount of expectations on Google releasing their array of new products in the market, they won’t be promisingly competing and mature in comparison with the existing vendors in the market. “I feel Google doesn’t have a clear view of where it’s heading to”. What Google is doing is similar to India’s famous FMCG HLL, where they have presence and share in almost every market. Still they find it difficult to stay ahead with local and regional players. Similarly it wont be no doubt that there may be “n” number of vendors in the market, who could even release their own operating systems for local markets which may working on really small scale. And promisingly India and China who are emerging as global players are capable of doing the same. The product needs to be user friendly and cost effective to win the clients reputation with other major things to be considered.

Microsoft is facing stiff competition across various vendors. Clearly Microsoft couldn’t survive only with its flag ship “Windows” operating system. I personally fell Microsoft would come up as a services company attracting customers, where most of its development activities would happen across India and China. And Google would occupy a very small pie in their competitors list. Microsoft couldn’t compete with Google across all its products, where Microsoft has stiff competition from LINUX community, ORACLE, MOZILLA FIREFOX… and the list goes on. It would lose its sight if they compete with Google alone. Microsoft is making bright strides to sustain its market share.

Category: Microsoft, Google