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Re: Ballmer vows to "fucking kill Google"
« Reply #15 on: 22 September 2005, 20:11 »
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/22/microsoft_google/

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Re: Ballmer vows to "fucking kill Google"
« Reply #16 on: 23 September 2005, 02:34 »
Problem is, Google is a household name. MSN search isn't.

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Re: Ballmer vows to "fucking kill Google"
« Reply #17 on: 23 September 2005, 05:04 »
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Problem is, Google is a household name. MSN search isn't.


Excellent point.  MSN, to the best of my knowledge, has never appeared as an answer in the NYTimes crossword puzzle.  Google was an answer just this past Sunday.

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Re: Ballmer vows to "fucking kill Google"
« Reply #18 on: 23 September 2005, 17:00 »
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Excellent point.  MSN, to the best of my knowledge, has never appeared as an answer in the NYTimes crossword puzzle.  Google was an answer just this past Sunday.

MSN is a house hold name. Most people associate "MSN" with "MSN Messenger".
It's the same for at least 90% of all people.

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Re: Ballmer vows to "fucking kill Google"
« Reply #19 on: 24 September 2005, 05:17 »
A pretty decent percentage of people believe that Windows is the only desktop software, and that George W. Bush is a good president.  So I think we should forget about what most people think.