Google Vs Microsoft!

What is Google??
Google has taken the last 10 years of systems software research out of university labs, and built their own proprietary, production quality system. What is this platform that Google is building? It’s a distributed computing platform that can manage web-scale datasets on 100,000 node server clusters. It includes a petabyte, distributed, fault tolerant filesystem, distributed RPC code, probably network shared memory and process migration. And a data center management system which lets a handful of ops engineers effectively run 100,000 servers. Any of these projects could be the sole focus of a startup.
While competitors are targeting the individual applications Google has deployed, Google is building a massive, general purpose computing platform for web-scale programming.

Fascinating stuff eh. =)

And now, what is Microsoft?

It is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sellBASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOSin the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. Microsoft would also come to dominate theoffice suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified in recent years into the video game industry with theXbox and its successor, the Xbox 360 as well as into the consumer electronics and digital services market with Zune, MSNand the Windows Phone OS. The ensuing rise of stock in the company's 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated four billionaires and 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees.

Primarily in the 1990s, critics contend Microsoft used monopolistic business practices and anti-competitive strategies including refusal to deal and tying, put unreasonable restrictions in the use of its software, and used misrepresentative marketing tactics; both the U.S. Department of Justice and European Commission found the company in violation of antitrustlaws. Known for its interviewing process with obscure questions, various studies and ratings were generally favorable to Microsoft's diversity within the company as well as its overall environmental impact with the exception of the electronics portion of the business.

Isn't this equally facinating!?

So in my world, I would say that i would pick Google any time over Microsoft though no offence to microsoft too of course. I have been a microsoft user for most of my life but when google came knocking on my door, i was won over by it hands down. I like how google not only responds faster but also gives me various options when i search for one word. Over the years, as google started gaining power over microsoft, microsoft started creating stuff to pit against google. They created a search engine like Bing to stand against Google search engine. But boo hoo...it stood no chance against google from the word go.

SO all you microsoft users out there, I would urge you to try our google anytime and lemme know if my thoughts clash against yours in any way!

Cheers! =)