Comments on: Microsoft to Google: Take an antitrust lesson from us

The software maker's deputy general counsel says it's learned its lesson in dealing with regulators. Is Google listening?

[qwerty75]

It should say

"MS has learned how to manipulate regulators"

MS has not changed its spots.

[cameronjpu]

You think that quote was bad?

What about this one!

"All the more reason you want to be cooperative and make the government think they won. You want to say, 'Yep, you won. We'll change our practices.'"

Sheesh!

[JCPayne]

Didn't AT&T do the same thing???

Didn't AT&T settle too just before the government was going to order it to be broken up so that they could control what got split and what didn't.... I thought I read somewhere for example they spun off all the bells but kept the infrastructure so that the bells had to lease much of the long-haul telecom equipment from Ma-Bell in the early years.

[justice007]

Sounding noble

This SEEMS like a noble gesture towards Google. But did Microsoft even wonder WHY the regulators were looking into their case? Perhaps because MS did something (many things) that are harming the consumers in the long run? And competition in both the short run and long run?

They make regulators sound as though they are somehow unjust. The government retains regulatory power for a reason (but what the current administration does, and how/if the Judge toes that line are an entirely different story).

[quikboy2]

Definitely. Google is getting too powerful

As much as we like to think Google is the best, they're not.

Have you heard of some recent things about Google, especially on privacy? Do I want Google to take my cookies, and take some info. on me? Let them monitor my Gmail account? Make some bits of me public for the world to see?

Google Books steals publisher content and publishers have to opt-out, which isn't really nice. Windows Live Books asks publishers to get their content, instead of swiping them without permission.

Google goes to court about Vista's desktop search. Vista Desktop Search is already fine, and even greater than Google's desktop search. Plus, do I really want Google's bloatware on my computer indexing my computer, and probably keeping track of them in Google's servers? I don't think so. It's just ridiculous. You could say the same for OS X's Finder.

That's just the tip. Google is starting to become the big bad boy that Microsoft used to be. At least Microsoft is the one to get out of it, hopefully, one day Google can too.

[Renegade Knight]

Microsoft Could Learn a Thing or Two From Google

From the story. "A Microsoft attorney says the company has learned how to deal with antitrust regulators and that Google could glean a thing or two from the experience. "

That may be true, and yet, Microsoft sure could use a lesson or two on how to treat customers right.