{"id":58,"date":"2004-10-28T18:06:12","date_gmt":"2004-10-28T22:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=58"},"modified":"2004-10-28T18:06:12","modified_gmt":"2004-10-28T22:06:12","slug":"microsoft-vs-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/microsoft-vs-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft vs. Google"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul A. Strassman’s provocative little essay in the Oct. 4 Computerworld<\/em><\/a> (registration may be required) insightfully compares Microsoft’s business model with Google’s. Here’s a sample:<\/p>\n

Now a new Microsoft challenger is emerging on the horizon: Google. What makes Google different is that it follows innovative rules as it carves out a share of the IT business. Google’s emerging strategy may give us a clue as to who may be bidding for IT leadership in our uncertain industry by the end of this decade.<\/p>\n

Microsoft’s power is based on selling customers software that becomes a sequence of increasingly sticky entanglements. Once you’ve installed Microsoft operating software on a desktop, laptop or cell phone, the steadily increasing inclusiveness of features will raise your costs for choosing any alternative. Google, on the other hand, relies on a generic browser to gain access to a rapidly growing menu of services.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For Microsoft, one might substitute Blackboard or WebCT or any of a number of course\/learning management systems. What’s the T & L analogy to Google?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul A. Strassman’s provocative little essay in the Oct. 4 Computerworld (registration may be required) insightfully compares Microsoft’s business model with Google’s. Here’s a sample: Now a new Microsoft challenger is emerging on the horizon: Google. What makes Google different … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bHwM-W","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}