In an ongoing legal dispute between Google and Microsoft over the former’s hiring of an ex-MS employee, an interesting statement by former MS engineer Mark Lucovsky came up.  It reads, in part:

Prior to joining Google, I set up a meeting on or about November

11, 2004 with Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer to discuss my planned

departure….At some point in the conversation Mr. Ballmer said: “Just

tell me it’s not Google.” I told him it was Google.

At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across

the room hitting a table in his office. Mr. Ballmer then said: “Fucking

Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I’m going to fucking bury that guy, I

have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to fucking kill

Google.” ….

Thereafter, Mr. Ballmer resumed trying to persuade me to

stay….Among other things, Mr. Ballmer told me that “Google’s not a

real company. It’s a house of cards.”

While not representative of Microsoft’s

official stance with

respect to Google, the apparent angst displayed by the Redmond Giant’s

CEO against the Mountain View emerging world power’s own chief

executive demonstrates that Microsoft is, indeed, threatened by the

emergence of

Google as a force to be reckoned with.

At least this is what I think.

True, the possibility that Google may be developing an Operating System

of its own may still be a speculation.  True, Microsoft sits on

cash far greater than Google can imagine–at least for the time being;

wait a few years and thing may just be the reverse.

With a company like Google, you never know what they have up in their

sleeves.  I’d always prefer to think that world domination is only

but a small step away.  Microsoft failed in this department even

if they’ve conquered more than 95% of the desktop operating system

market, because, well, people just didn’t like them.

But with Google, a company that almost everyone trusts, it’s a different ball game.

(via JED)

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