Throughout his career at Microsoft, when Bill Gates came up against a rival with an impressive product, his standard move was to dedicate Microsoft’s resources toward coming out with a Microsoft version of the product. Microsoft would then refine that version—and, ultimately, in many cases, build a better one—while slowly but surely driving the innovator’s product into irrelevance.
This is a quote I’ve posted a couple of weeks back. And now I’m proposing you a quick game: replace in the above text Microsoft with Google and see if what results matches history?
