Ah, poor little Microsoft!
First, it is spurned by Yahoo when offering (out of the kindness of its Gatesian heart) to buy the company for $45bn of hard-earned Micro-cash.
Second, nasty old Google comes along and snaffles an advertising deal that effectively scuppers the Yahoo takeover and blows Microsoft's chance of increasing its advertising share out of the water.
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Microsoft's general counsel told a congressional committee yesterday that "never before in the history of advertising has one company been in a position to control prices on up to 90% of advertising in a single medium."
Ah, Mr Smith - perhaps not in advertising. But there has perhaps been a significant Microsoft memory malfunction. Could we remind the company of the richness of its claims - given that the European Commission fined the firm a whopping €899m - that's £707m - earlier this year for non-compliance with previous anti-trust rulings and for excessive royality fees for its rivals?
Microsoft has 95% of the global market for operating systems. Then again, it takes a monopolist to know one, so perhaps it does have a point about Google.
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