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February 4, 2008
Microsoft: Google Has No Products
The reason why Google is a market leader is not because they have products. They're the leader because they're the leader in one product area, called search.
-- Steve Ballmer, quoted in WSJ (02/04/08)
Oh yeah! Oh yeah!? I have no idea what this means, but it sure sounds like an attempt at smack-talking to me.
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Yeah, that's a great idea @dubdub. That would really work. Oh, wait -- no it wouldn't.
@Math -- well-argued!
microsoft want to buy yahoo
He's sort of got a point, but the way he puts it betrays a certain cluelessness about business on the web and what means "product".
Right smart what Ballmer is.
p.s. Dance, Monkeyboy, Dance!
I believe what he's trying to say is that while Google and Microsoft both offer a wide array of products, Microsoft makes money on their OS and their Office suite of applications while Google only makes money on search. It should also be noted that Microsoft's revenues and profits are 3-4X Google's, although MS has been wildly unsuccessful at search.
"DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS!!!!!"
/sweat
/stroke
/heart attack
Products are a commodity and one can even argue Google isn't the best at search anymore.
Why google is a market leader is bc they understand that products alone don't build differentiation.
That is built through one's brand, marketing and knowing and consistently delivering customer value.
It's funny Ballmer didn't mention online advertising -- the thing, supposedly, that MS wants from Yahoo.
If microsoft really wanted to play hardball, they'd turn adblocking on by default in explorer 7.
Or they could insist on a revenue split just like google currently gives mozilla for searches thru firefox's search bar.