In a blog, Google said the tie-up could unfairly limit the ability of consumers to freely access competitors' email and instant messaging services.It said Microsoft had previously sought "to establish proprietary monopolies".
Pero Microsoft le ha respondido que Google no es pequeño tampoco, que acapara el 75% del mercado.
Ante la carta de David Drummond, de Google, poniendo de manifiesto la amenaza que la operación Microsoft-Yahoo! supone para el futuro de la web y sus principios fundamentales, Brad Smith, de Microsoft, ha contestado afirmando queHmm, tan comprometida con la apertura que si compras un PC, te dan el Windows, sí o sí, salvo que pidas expresamente un Dell con Linux. O sea que NO.“Microsoft is committed to openness, innovation, and the protection of privacy on the Internet”
Y muchas otras cosas sí, pero eso no. Lo siento, pero eso me resulta un insulto a la inteligencia del lector. Microsoft es la empresa permanentemente empeñada en redefinir los estándares a su antojo, en controlarlos, en evitar el acceso de otros, en utilizar la fuerza de su monopolio para eliminar competencia… ¿Cuántos juicios llevamos ya en este sentido? Microsoft es una empresa comprometida con la destrucción de la apertura, y con la compra de los ideales a golpe de talonario siempre que ha podido para evitar responder ante los tribunales de defensa de la competencia.
De Google podremos decir muchas cosas, y algunas de ellas muy inquietantes, pero por el momento no tiene el precedente siniestro de lo que Microsoft ha hecho con el mercado del PC.
Mientras los empleados de Yahoo! no están muy contentos porque piensan que se les acaba su cultura del "amor a la diversión" si al final son absorbidos por Microsoft: Yahoos fear loss of fun-loving culture | Tech News on ZDNet:
"Yahoo employees fretted on Friday that their fun-loving culture, summed up by early company ads featuring a cowboy yodel, could get quashed by the comparatively stodgy software behemoth that wants to gobble it up.Todo el mundo ve a Microsoft como el gran pulpo de 20.000 leguas de viaje submarino que quiere tragarse a todo el mundo.
On a crisp, sunny morning just hours after Microsoft announced a $44.6 billion bid for the Internet company, 'Yahoos' at its Silicon Valley campus milled about with coffee cups outside the low-rise buildings.
One engineer taking a cigarette break in the grassy plaza in Sunnyvale, Calif., said Microsoft's move raised difficult questions for Yahoos. The woman, who was in her late 30s, would not give her name due to corporate rules against unauthorized contacts with reporters.
'Everyone sees Microsoft as the big octopus from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea that wants to swallow everybody up,' she said."
Pero no hay que desesperar: Google, que no está nada interesado en que Microsoft le quite parte del pastel, ya ha ofrecido un acuerdo a Yahoo!:
In an unusually aggressive effort to prevent Microsoft from moving forward with its $44.6 billion hostile bid for Yahoo, Google emerged over the weekend with plans to play the role of spoiler.Publicly, Google came out against the deal, contending in a statement that the pairing, proposed by Microsoft on Friday in the form of a hostile offer, would pose threats to competition that need to be examined by policy makers around the world.
Privately, Google, seeing the potential deal as a direct attack, went much further. Its chief executive, Eric E. Schmidt, placed a call to Yahoo’s chief, Jerry Yang, offering the company’s help in fending off Microsoft, possibly in the form of a partnership between the companies, people briefed on the call said.
Google’s lobbyists in Washington have also begun plotting how it might present a case against the transaction to lawmakers, people briefed on the company’s plans said. Google could benefit by simply prolonging a regulatory review until after the next president takes office.
En ZDNet News se preguntan si Microsoft no se habrá precipitado y habrá elegido mal la compañía:
We all know what this is about, web search. Buying Yahoo doesn’t solve the problem. It’s a poor number two to Google in search, and a turnaround is needed for it to become a challenger.Rather than looking at this as a game of buying market share, perhaps Microsoft should examine what this really is — a system integration challenge.
Google doesn’t just win because of its search algorithms. Search for this story in Google News today, or a week from now, and you’ll know that’s true.
Google wins because it delivers instant answers for less than its rivals. Google wins because it has dark fiber, low-cost server farms, parallel processing, and mirrored databases.
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