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Google now worth more than Microsoft
- thurn 13y agoIt's been back and forth. GOOG was worth more than MSFT until quite recently, but MSFT was up 18% in April.
- psbp 13y agoI think GOOG will fall back down to earth eventually. I'm not sure why Glass and self-driving cars seem to be driving it up. They seem like very long term projects and they're bound to have plenty of competition.
- brokenparser 13y agoGoogle has always been worth more than Microsoft (to me).
- bborud 13y agoThat was a spectacularly badly written article. It was so bad I had to force myself to read it.
- jacquesm 13y agoI'm somewhat surprised it took this long. Given that google feels like 'the future' and Microsoft is still clinging to the past. Someone at IBM head quarters probably had a bottle chilled for this occasion, small consolation though it must be for them. What would it take for Microsoft to pull an 'Apple', and what would it take for IBM to really rebound? Yahoo is in the process of trying to turn tables on Google which is a an attempt I don't have much faith in (mostly because Yahoo never managed to capture much of my interest in the first place so I find it hard to imagine to see them work their way out of the hole). But Microsoft just might have it in them somewhere to really come out swinging. But since Bill Gates isn't hurting in any way and more than content to let Ballmer do his thing it likely won't ever happen. Microsoft was/is a large enough empire that it will take a very long time (many decades) before they're gone but this is a definite sign that their days of hegemony are over, they got surpassed rather than that they were out-competed.
- bluedino 13y ago> Microsoft was/is a large enough empire that it will take a very long time (many decades) It won't take long before they're a fraction of the size they were at their peak, and the company and it's products (and vision) are simply a shell of it's former self. Look at GM, HP...
- ritchiea 13y agoGoogle doesn't even feel like the future anymore, it feels like the present and we don't have a clue what the future is yet.
- psbp 13y agoidk. I think the reason there are so many overzealous investors is because google does feel a bit like Apple ~2005. If they have a hit product all their own, they seem to be set up perfectly to dominant in a variety of industries. I can imagine that a motorola phone could be made perfectly to work with google glass, a nexus tv running games in a chrome browser or playing "tv" through youtube. It will be hard for Microsoft and even apple to untangle themselves from services like Youtube or compete with those like search. On the other hand, it would be relatively easy for google to make an iPhone quality phone or free software that works just as well as office for 99% of users.
- ttrreeww 13y agoGoogle has been worth more than Microsoft for months...
- gtaylor 13y agoThat's cool, but as a consumer I don't care one bit. Market cap, sales, revenues, I just don't care at all. These are much more important "metrics" to me personally (as a consumer): * Innovation relative to peers. * The value of their offerings to me in my daily life. * How they treat their developers, developers, developers. If you're looking at this from the lens of an investor, overall market cap/worth/whatever, it's a completely different story. However, I think most of us will be comparing the two companies by means that are more directly to us as individuals.