Google and Microsoft are at knives drawn. Driven in part by pressure from lawmakers and regulators over the extraordinary power the two technology companies wield over American life, the California-based search engine giant and Washington-based software firm are wrestling to throw each other under ...
For Years, Microsoft had no competition when it came to productivity suites. The vast majority of people and enterprises didn't have to give suites any thought at all. They just chose Microsoft Office. With more businesses getting used to the idea of their apps and data living in the cloud...
The competition between Google and Microsoft can be positive for the search engine market. But there is also a bad side to all of this, especially how it affects the smaller artificial intelligence companies and the future of AI research. And there is an even uglier side, which is the broad...
As competition between the two intensifies, Microsoft is “reverting to their familiar playbook of attacking rivals and lobbying for regulations that benefit their own interests,” he wrote in a March blog post.On Capitol Hill, Google has been among companies agitating for more scrutiny of ...
Last fall, Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s commissioner for competition, said the European Parliament and European Council should approve legislation regulating Big Tech as soon as possible. The data, compiled by anonym...
“It’s the equivalent of high-tech trench warfare. In 2010, we can expect to see the bitter competition continue, with each company keeping up the heat with new features and innovations.” McGregor noted that the next 18 to 24 months are looking to be fun to watch with the two giants...
Google, Microsoft & Apple Googlefailures.GOOGLEANSWERS. In competition with Yahoo! Answers‚GooglecreatedGoogleAnswers a program which goal was to answer all kind of questions users could have. The program counted with a team of researchers guaranteeing correct‚ quality answers‚ despite ...
Zoom’s rise in popularity also caught Microsoft by surprise, even though the company recently identified Zoom as an “emerging threat.” Skype has failed to fully capitalize on the video calling market it once dominated, leaving the door wide open for competition. While Skype usage has increased...
This brought down the competition somewhat, although both still vie hard for a market share of cloud computing and online productivity applications. Google is competing for this space that is dominated by Microsoft’s Azure cloud-computing and Office productivity businesses. ...
As Microsoft threw its weight into the market for cloud based producvity apps, the question remained how would Google respond and how important was this competition to their business, which is historically driven by advertising revenue and dominating the search market. Not to mention their attention...