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Things seem a bit brighter for search-portal competitor Google. The company is rolling out new services almost daily (have you seen Google Moon? Be sure to zoom all the way into the Moon's surface). Ah, but not everyone is so sanguine about Google's success. In fact, Redmond software giant Microsoft is, apparently, spitting mad that Google hired one of its former research executives. So mad, says Microsoft Watch's Mary Jo Foley, that Microsoft is now suing Google. Foley has the inside look at the dust-up and some speculation on how this might impact a possible 'Google OS.'
Microsoft's legal battle with Google and overall track record in search seems counter to the Redmond-based company's long-standing practice of comfortably dominating whichever market it enters. But maybe Microsoft's on the verge of regaining its old form. I took a look at the announcement about Internet Explorer and RSS in Longhorn from a few weeks ago and noted some echoes of past, similar Microsoft initiatives. Should RSS-focused vendors be scared? I think so.
Still, why should we expect the company to rule the RSS world, when it's still struggling to gain more mobile market share than devices based on the upstart Linux operating system? Our pals at Linux Devices are almost gleeful in their report on the latest smart-phone shipment numbers, which show that Linux-powered devices are beating Windows Mobile phones by a factor of more than 2 to 1. The numbers look s"