Posted on Thursday, January 05 2006 @ 20:51 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Bill Gates downplayed the threat posed to Microsoft from search engine giant Google. Instead, IBM is a much bigger threat he claims.
Google's meteoric rise and rivalry with Microsoft has increasingly become a fixation of the press, Mr Gates said.
"People tend to get over focused on one of our competitors. We've always seen that," the Microsoft chairman said.
Speaking before a keynote speech at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, Mr Gates said computer giant IBM posed a greater threat to Microsoft.
More info over at
BBC.
