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bargainbloodhound · 09-06-2005, 06:40 PM,

...in the Microsoft vs. Google court battle.

Quote:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer vowed to "kill" Google in an expletive-laced, chair-throwing tirade when a senior engineer told him he was leaving the company to go to work for Google

http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,3...920,00.htm

Hmmm...google and Microsoft don't seem to like each other...could it be because they're birds of a feather each bent on remaking the world in their image : Smile

***mandy*** · 09-15-2005, 11:18 AM,

Microsoft is proposing a settlement with Google in the suit:

http://www.informationweek.com/story/sho...=170703075

***mandy*** · 12-23-2005, 12:24 PM,

Quote:Microsoft has settled its lawsuit with rival Google over the hiring of Kai-Fu Lee, an expert in speech recognition technology and the man who founded Microsoft's China research lab in the late 1990s.

Microsoft said in a statement: "The parties have entered into a private agreement that resolves all issues to their mutual satisfaction. The terms of the agreement are confidential and all parties have agreed to make no other statements to the media regarding it."

full article: http://management.silicon.com/government...259,00.htm