01-06-2007, 07:45 PM
Sara, I don't think MS had anything to do with this. Somebody's just havin' a little fun. In fact, I think it's kind of a poke at MS.
But I see a darker side to it. MS is trying to buy out Yahoo and AOL in order to compete with Google. (Can you say antitrust?) The best way to eliminate competition is to buy it. Personally, I think Google's getting a little too big itself. But I don't think that the answer is to make MS even larger and more powerful. It's not in America's best interest to have one or two monstrously huge companies that have the power to obliterate competition. How long will it be before we become the United States of Microsoft? Or the United States of Walmart? It's a little bit scary.
But I see a darker side to it. MS is trying to buy out Yahoo and AOL in order to compete with Google. (Can you say antitrust?) The best way to eliminate competition is to buy it. Personally, I think Google's getting a little too big itself. But I don't think that the answer is to make MS even larger and more powerful. It's not in America's best interest to have one or two monstrously huge companies that have the power to obliterate competition. How long will it be before we become the United States of Microsoft? Or the United States of Walmart? It's a little bit scary.