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It’s the most popular search engine in the world. Call Google the defacto default search and you won’t get much of an argument from anyone. Except Microsoft. For whatever reason, the Windows maker is making yet another run at toppling Google from their perch as King of Search. Since the last search barrage, the oddly named Microsoft Live Search, Microsoft has learned a thing or two. But have they learned anything new? </p> </div> <a name="read"></a>  <div class="wrapper_comments"> <h3>Reader Comments (1)</h3> <div class="frame_comments_one"> <p><strong>Tom Gabriel</strong> said:</p> <p>Okay, know what? There is this simple problem about Microsoft which practically guarantees they will never really succeed at anything. This is: Microsoft doesn’t have original ideas. They never have. They either buy or steal someone else’s idea, or introduce an inferior version of something that has been made before (and better) by someone else.</p> <p>Zune, the iPod killer? Oh, yeah, sure. When was the last time you saw somebody with a Zune? When was the last time you saw somebody with an iPod? Case closed.</p> <p>Microsoft Windows? Bill Gates freely admits to “taking” the source code for Windows long, long ago from the Apple OS of the time (which somehow hadn’t been copyrighted or patented), calling this “competition”.</p> <p>Well, this kind of thing works for awhile, but using ruthless marketing techniques gets you the numbers, and the numbers only. The psychology does not allow for original thought or innovation. It only allows you to copy and “adapt” for the sake of the market.</p> <p>Mac OS X was and remains a remarkable leap in the technology of operating systems. That is acknowledged by just about everyone in the know about such things, with caveats it’s true, but nonetheless, in many important respects, it has proven to be revolutionary and evolutionary in the best sense.</p> <p>What I’ve seen and said for the last fifteen years is true: Huge though it is, Microsoft’s days are numbered.</p> <p>Had a look at Windows Vista and all the publicity about its fabled bugginess, instability, etc. etc.? 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