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Microsoft have the money to try and either buy out Google or advertise their search engine so much that everyone uses it. Plus, they can integrate is with IE/Windows and make it the default search engine (as it is now, IIRC).
However, I can't see Google being knocked off it's podium for at least another six months, mainly because it is so far ahead and Microsoft doesn't have a completed search engine that is capable of competing with it.
The only way anyone will overtake Google in the foreseeable (in computing terms, about 6 months) future is if Google itself makes a critical mistake, e.g. starts charging to search the web, limits searches to x per day, allows people to pay to get to the top of the rankings (this is not the same as Adwords) etc. People will then start looking for an alternative, although not necessarily Microsoft's.
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Originally posted here by Schrodinger
While I agree with your reasoning, I have to pick up on this. Windows does not ship with Word. Office does. It was the Office suite that killed WP - the idea of selling one integrated ( almost ) package to cover all of your needs. WP could not immediately compete, and was always playing catchup from then onwards.
As always, the triumph of marketing over technology. :rolleyes:
Bad comparison, word perfict started jumping companies around the time MS shiped word. WP went from the word perfect corperation to Novel, to Corel getting a littel more buggy with each jump. Then corel decided to rewrite it in java. Word was a superior product so it took over while WP got muddeld in sales.
