Google’s latest move keeps the techies guessing
Financial Times
By Richard Waters September 2, 2008
Silicon Valley was buzzing with two explanations for the latest eye-catching twist in the technology industry’s most prominent battle: Google’s decision to launch its own web browser in competition with Microsoft’s dominant Internet Explorer.One version held that this was a defensive move designed to prevent Microsoft from siphoning away Google’s audience.
The other interpretation, however, suggested something far more ambitious: that this was the latest element in an attack on Microsoft’s core desktop software business that could eventually pose a threat to the Windows monopoly itself.
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