Google has outpaced
Microsoft in innovation from its inception and now Google continues to gain momementum while Microsoft slows down. It has taken Microsoft almost 5 years to produce Vista which has few new features none of which are compelling enough to make even an adequate business case for upgrading. Web enabled versions of word processors, spreadsheets and databases are the future direction of computing and Microsoft is simply not going there today. While Google
grows and gets better at engaging the developer community with a variety of
API's Microsoft continues to focus on the desktop which is well on its way to becoming little more than a thin client. The final blow will come when Google rolls out free network storage and everyone comes to realizes that the net is the computer.
Microsoft Outpaced by Google
Microsoft
1987.04.02: Windows 2.0
1990.04.02: Windows 3.0
1992.04.06: Windows 3.1
1993.05.24: Windows NT
1995.08.29: Windows 95
1998.06.25: Windows 98
2000.02.17: Windows 2000
2001.10.21: Windows XP
2006.??.??: Windows Vista
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Google
1999.09.21: beta ends
2000.??.??: AdWords
2001.??.??: Google Groups
2002.??.??: Appliance, News, Froogle
2003.??.??: Blogger, AdSense, Toolbar, Deskbar
2004.04.29: gmail, IPO
2005.??.??: Store, Enterprise Desktop
2006.??.??: Software Pack
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For the past 4 years Microsoft has been stumbling about with .NET, Genuine WindowsTM, financing SCO litigation and a subscription business model that no one would buy into - NOT delivering software. They no longer have the momentum to catch up with Google
Update 2006-03-23: 60% of Vista to be rewritten as the Company "scrambles" to fix internal problems a Microsoft insider has confirmed to SHN.
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May 3, 2006 -
Ditto'ed by Dvorak 
