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They want to have it both ways: Microsoft and Google

Latest in the Search Engine and OS Wars

By Kerrie Meyler on Wed, 07/15/09 - 12:44am.

So you’ve most probably heard last week of Google’s announcement for an operating system: Google Chrome. Of course, Microsoft has also “declared war” on Google Search, per its evolution of Windows Live to Bing.

But there may also be more to this than meets the eye, as Anil Dash points out in his blog posting, Google’s Microsoft Moment, at http://dashes.com/anil/2009/07/googles-microsoft-moment.html. Is Google going the way Microsoft did – where it’s become more important to have products that run on their platforms than develop products that go where the users are? Anil mentions that Microsoft is now developing products that work on competitors’ browsers and mobile platforms. In addition to products for browsers and mobile devices, Microsoft also recently released Operations Manager 2007 R2 – which has an open-source component that monitors Unix and Linux platforms! (See http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/27600 for my earlier thoughts on the Cross-Platform Extensions.)

For those who consider Microsoft to be the evil empire, Anil points out once a tech company becomes dominant in its space, anything caused by stupidity or carelessness will instead be attributed to malice. Google now has the most dominant search engine – is it on its way to becoming an evil empire itself? I suppose only time will tell.

For information on the Chrome announcement: see http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070809-google-chrome-faq.html, http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/43507, and http://dashes.com/anil/2009/07/googles-microsoft-moment.html.

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About Managing Microsoft

Kerrie Meyler, MVP, MCSE, MCTS, MCT, is an independent consultant and trainer with over fifteen years of experience in IT. While at Microsoft in Field Technical Sales for four years she focused on infrastructure and mangement, presenting at numerous product launches. Kerrie has presented Operations Manager 2007 at TechEd 2007, MMS 2009, MMS 2011, and internal Microsoft conferences, receiving company recognition and awards including a SPAR MGS award. Kerrie worked with Microsoft Learning to develop functional specifications for the original Operations Manager Microsoft courseware, 2550: Implementing Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 and did the beta teach for that course.She also participated in development for several System Center certification exams.

Kerrie is the lead author of Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Unleashed, System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 Unleashed, System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Unleashed, System Center Opalis Integration Server 6.3 Unleashed and System Center Service Manager 2010 Unleashed.

Check out an excerpt from System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed, Chapter 3: Looking Inside OpsMgr.

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