Microsoft to buy one more part of cyberspace
September 15th, 2005 by Jake
So I sign onto IRC today, and what do I see as the topic? “ * Topic is 'MSN & AOL to merge? - http://www.bigblueball.com/forums/t32237-aol-msn-merger-rumors.html'“So I go to read the article, and it looks as if Microsoft is planning to buy yet another huge part of the Internet, trying to take over.
This is like a war, I swear, Google Versus eBay Versus Microsoft. Who will win? I put my money on Google, they grew so fast it was unbelieveable. But, really, with eBay Buying Skype and Time Warner selling AOL over to Microsoft, what’s to come in the future? Will small providers like Skype ever survive without a bigger company buying them out? Will this turn into a monopoly with just one company running everything, e-mail, chat, ISP, web hosting? There are advantages and disadvantages, no doubt, but do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages is the question. Would you sacrafice price for an all-in-one comapny? How about selection versus simplicity? I don’t know about you, but I certainly don’t like the looks of this.
Of course I could be exaggerating some of this, but then again am I? Could this be reality in as few as five or ten years’ time?
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MrEggsalad says:
September 15th, 2005 at 4:36 pm
Eventually everything will become a war between 2 things. Look at cell phone companies, Cingular & At&t combined, same with Nextel and Sprint. Now AOL and Microsoft? In 50 years it will either be “Hmm…should I get Google’s OS, nice and simple and relitively plain, or Microsoft’s which everything works with it, trys to help you do EVERYTHING, but has a bunch of security threats.”
Trey says:
September 15th, 2005 at 5:27 pm
It is kind of ironic that the “war” you speak of only includes one pre-internet company. The other two sprouted in the destruction of the dot-com bubble burst. I don’t think it will ever be just one company, because there are US laws against it. Also, you don’t HAVE to sell your company. If you are the majority stock-holder, and your company is profitable, and you really don’t want to sell it, you don’t have to.