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Google is kind of the Microsoft of our generation. I'm sure in a few years people will be calling to have some part of Google separated from another part of Goo
by oldstrangers 16y ago
Google is kind of the Microsoft of our generation. I'm sure in a few years people will be calling to have some part of Google separated from another part of Google.
- arethuza 16y agoAs Microsoft was the IBM of it's day (which is certainly in it's evening, if not quite over). Here is an good book on the trouble IBM was in before it re-invented itself as a professional services company: http://www.amazon.com/Big-Blues-Unmaking-Paul-Carroll/dp/0517882213 http://www.amazon.com/Big-Blues-Unmaking-Paul-Carroll/dp/051... A lot of the themes that seem to apply to Microsoft now applied to IBM back in the 80's and will no doubt apply to Google ten years from now.
- meric 16y agoMaybe Google in 2011 was like Microsoft in 1995 - Just finished building a product that takes all the market share (Search/Android & Office/Win95), stock having increased by 500% over the past 5 years, and about to enter a tech bubble. http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1302292800000&chddm=2533289&chls=IntervalBasedLine&q=NASDAQ:MSFT&ntsp=0&fct=big http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&... If Google will really become the next Microsoft... That means its time to buy Google stocks! (Disclaimer: I'm about to buy some GOOG)