Re:Working at Google vs Microsoft as Proxy for New vs. Old
by gvb on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @04:59PM
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Biased nonsense???
* Google makes money from ads. The more people that are online (and using its "properties"), the more money it makes. They appear to be "monetizing" web-based traffic extremely well.
* Microsoft has a long history of sucking the life out of its "partners" (Quarterdeck/DESQview, Stacker, Spyglass, WordPerfect, and OS/2 off the top of my head). See also http://grokdoc.net/index.php/Dirty_Tricks_history.
Obvious, maybe. Nonsense, no.
Just look at the wording:
> Google believes the amount of money they make is proportionate to the number of people online. Google believes it can monetize that traffic better than anyone else. They're great at leveraging the community.
> Microsoft believes in developing and "restrictively licensing" a platform to generate revenue. Believes in "devaluing their partners." Builds an ecosystem instead of a community, "which means they get a bunch of people around them, and then they kind of suck the value to them from the work those people do."