Microsoft trumped Google in the bidding for a piece of Facebook (See "Google Loses Face" and "Frienemies Without Facebook").
Things like connectivity, printing, passwords, and application requests all are close to being automated today, but they will get better as time progresses, and real competition from Microsoft and Google in this area will speed things along.
Four technology giants, three of which are among the most cash-rich corporations of all time in Apple, Microsoft and Google, will tussle with Amazon for supremacy in the tablet market using strategies that overlap in some critical ways but differ fundamentally.
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Uniquely, users can also write a post in Microsoft Word or Google Documents and then import it into their blog.
This summer, for example, we had students working summer jobs and internships in companies all over the world, in workplaces at Google, Microsoft, Cisco and Apple, at manufacturers in Australia, China and Japan, financial service firms on Wall Street and tech firms in Israel.
In 2005, Google beat out Microsoft to buy a stake in AOL. And while Microsoft carped after the DoubleClick deal, Yahoo!
This is pretty hilarious: Google has caught Microsoft in the act of tweaking its search engine, Bing, to make the results it returns more Google-like.
Will a program like this help Microsoft catch up to Google in the search wars?
That invisible fix is a trick Microsoft adopted in late 2011 from Google, which has long pushed auto-updates to Chrome with no user interaction.
We discussed that Apple has an advantage over Google and Microsoft in terms of a stable and consistent operating system for smartphones and tablets.
What they want to see, and what may finally goose the shares, is some sign that Microsoft is gaining on Google in some fashion--any fashion--on the Internet.
The popularity of cloud computing and its profit making capacity has resulted in old IT behemoths such as Microsoft, Oracle, Google, etc. launching new products in the domain.
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In the two years since Google, Microsoft, Amazon and other Internet companies lined up in favor of network neutrality, the landscape has changed.
In a little known battle in the UK, both Google and Microsoft are competing for white spaces, gaps in the radio spectrum between TV, radio and mobile.
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In May, Google succeed in winning an injunction against Microsoft in Germany, allowing it to impose a sales ban there against the Xbox 360 games console, Windows 7 system software, Internet Explorer browser and Windows Media Player.
In comparison, rivals like Google and Microsoft spend around 15 percent of revenues, and Samsung sits in between at around 6 percent.
It is also a recognition that Microsoft contends in a world where companies like Amazon and Google offer a lot of Microsoft-type server and operational software, through cloud-based services.
In addition to the one over licensing fees and a case in Germany involving standard essential patents, Google has maintained legal action against Microsoft in the ITC over a patent relating to a wireless peer-to-peer network, which is not a standard essential patent.
In May 2012, Google succeeded in winning an injunction against Microsoft in Germany, allowing it to impose a sales ban there against the Xbox 360 games console, Windows 7 system software, Internet Explorer browser and Windows Media Player.
In September, Internet giants Google and Microsoft withdrew adverts for sex selection products and other services considered illegal in India when they were threatened with legal action.
Like Microsoft, Google has enormous power in its market, so regulatory vigilance is necessary.
It would be interesting to hear what you think of Apple, Google, and Microsoft in this regard.
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Microsoft competes with Google and Apple in the operating system market.
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's search business would be a more realistic way for Microsoft to catch up to Google in searches and search advertising.
It has interested analysts because both Yahoo and Microsoft have fallen far behind Google in capturing the Internet search engine business.
Other sites are being allowed to accept Google and Microsoft logins in place of their own, but the two tech giants are not reciprocating.
If you want to live in a Google or Microsoft world, with a single sign-on to those companies' services and all of their apps, an Apple device won't cut it.
's (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) search business would be a more realistic way for Microsoft to catch up to Google in searches and search advertising.
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