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Nice article

I agree with just about everything you say. TBH you're saying nothing new - we all know these facts already but it's soooo much fun watching the MS-Fanboys defend their godhead from any threat no matter how slight.

As many posters on these fora have pointed out - often over a period of months or years - the biggest threat to Microsoft is ODF and open formats.

Oddly enough, the biggest threat to Google is Google. They've got to sort the copyright issues caused by YouTube and their "books database" projects.

As far as Microsoft competing directly with Google via MSN it is no competition. Whilst MSN bots seem to pick up sites quicker than they used to, Google has the mind-share. You don't "MSN" something, you "Google" it. Google's ultimate accolade is that it has become eponymous which is something Microsoft has never achieved.

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