http://www.monashreport.com/2006/07/20/richard-brandt-doesnt-suck/ Technology ... politics ... marketing ... strategy ... life Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:11:38 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.monashreport.com/2006/07/20/richard-brandt-doesnt-suck/#comment-1487 The Monash Report»Blog Archive » Google vs. Microsoft Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:54:24 +0000 http://www.monashreport.com/2006/07/20/richard-brandt-doesnt-suck/#comment-1487 [...] Richard Brandt responded to my challenge by explaining in some detail why he thinks Microsoft will never catch up with Google. His argument basically boils down to a very well-reasoned “Why would they? The reasons why Microsoft succeeded in overtaking almost all other PC software vendors don’t apply in this case.” And clearly Google has enormous resources to throw at businesses like search, plus a corporate culture that seems from the outside to be a lot more productive than Microsoft’s these days. [...] [...] Richard Brandt responded to my challenge by explaining in some detail why he thinks Microsoft will never catch up with Google. His argument basically boils down to a very well-reasoned “Why would they? The reasons why Microsoft succeeded in overtaking almost all other PC software vendors don’t apply in this case.” And clearly Google has enormous resources to throw at businesses like search, plus a corporate culture that seems from the outside to be a lot more productive than Microsoft’s these days. [...]

]]> http://www.monashreport.com/2006/07/20/richard-brandt-doesnt-suck/#comment-1486 Richard Brandt Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:06:37 +0000 http://www.monashreport.com/2006/07/20/richard-brandt-doesnt-suck/#comment-1486 Curt, thanks so much for your endorsement. It means a lot to me. At the rsk of sounding like a mutual admiration society (I know you disagree with me plenty) I do want to point out that the AOL article was impressive because it came our right before AOL made a spectacular turnaround, for all the reasons you mentioned in your article. That lasted until it merged with Time Warner. When everyone else had written AOL off, you predicted a turnaround that was on target. It made us look smart. Curt, thanks so much for your endorsement. It means a lot to me. At the rsk of sounding like a mutual admiration society (I know you disagree with me plenty) I do want to point out that the AOL article was impressive because it came our right before AOL made a spectacular turnaround, for all the reasons you mentioned in your article. That lasted until it merged with Time Warner. When everyone else had written AOL off, you predicted a turnaround that was on target. It made us look smart.

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