Google buys Microsoft
Following a spate of recent acquisitions that include photo editing site Picnik, email searchers reMail, document collaborators DocVerse and a minor European country called France, Google's CEO Eric Schmidt announced this morning that the Mountain View-based company had bought Microsoft Corporation.
Schmidt said the purchase price of just US$2 billion reflected the company's true value after the Vista fiasco, ongoing losses in Office patent lawsuits and the way Linux continues to kick Windows 7's sorry butt.
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Trading on the NASDAQ was temporarily suspended after the announcement so that trading codes of Google (GOOG) and Microsoft (MSFT) could be combined. The new entity will be known as Google (GOOFT).
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who once said he'd "f***ing kill Google", now claims he was misquoted. "What I actually said was, 'I'd f***ing kill to work at Google.'" Ballmer is understood to be seeking a janitorial position.
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Comments
Windows 7, Ultimate Editon $599
Linux, $0
But the import thing is applications. What good is a free OS if it doesn't work with the programs you use every day?
Gimp is no Photoshop. Not even close. There are no good alternatives for Adobe Illustrator or After Effects.
Posted by: Robert Kent | February 10, 2011 10:43 AM
Would have been better if it had been more realistic. 'Cos it sucks!
Posted by: Joshua Issac | May 23, 2010 10:33 AM
Or you could just keep posting this unchanged every April 1st and watch as it becomes more believable and eventually comes to pass ;-) ?
Posted by: Grant Paton-Simpson | April 5, 2010 7:53 PM
Thats too over the top Geoff LOL - next April 1st try something a tad more believable :)
Posted by: chris | April 1, 2010 12:28 PM