I don't buy Cringely's logic. He rarely makes sense to me, and this column is no different. Microsoft is working very hard to get into the Internet advertisin

I don't buy Cringely's logic. He rarely makes sense to me, and this column is no different. Microsoft is working very hard to get into the Internet advertising business. They need a big, technology-centered growth business like advertising to power future growth because they're certainly not going to get it from Vista or Office. If you assume that Microsoft won't block ads from its own ad network, the idea that Microsoft would block Google ads is unthinkable. Such obviously anti-competitive behavior would bring down the Wrath of Kahn from every government agency in Washington and Brussels. It simply isn't going to happen. IMHO, Google launched Chrome because Google has unlimited resources, a desire to play on the desktop, fuzzy notions about a web OS, and because Googlers just don't know what to do with themselves these days. Advertising is so profitable but, alas, so boring. There's no reason why Chrome won't be successful, but there's also no clear business case for the product at present. Then again, there's no business case for Lively or YouTube either...