Microsoft: Chasing Google
Elise Ackerman writes in The Mercury News:
Microsoft may have been willing to spend years developing Vista, the long-delayed upgrade of its Windows operating system, but when Bill Gates was presented with a plan for finally beating Google in Internet search technology, he gave the engineers just 100 days.More here.
"Full-speed ahead," Gates told Stephen Lawler, the leader of the just-formed Virtual Earth team. The team met Gates' first deadline, as well as other equally punishing milestones in the two years that followed.
But the effort has yet to pay off. Indeed, the harder the coders from Redmond race after the crew from Mountain View, the more Google seems to pull ahead.
posted by Fergie @ 1/15/2007 05:39:00 PM
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