I hate to keep raining on your parade Gary but...

Google vs the World?

The computer world is powerfully dominated by Microsoft. To fundamentally change that equation means, in Google CEO Eric Schmidt's estimation, not a power-sharing arrangement but the decimation of the empire. In the language of geopolitics, Microsoft is the Soviet Union. The question is whether Google is Russian leader Boris Yeltsin or Vladimir Putin.

'Scary' Big Brother

What's so scary? A number of recent revelations about Chrome -- from an end-user license agreement that originally gave Google a perpetual license to all content transmitted through the browser (Google rewrote that) to the fact that Chrome by default transmits browsing history to Google -- suggest to Malone that Google is serious about controlling all the data on the Web.

"Microsoft only wanted all of our money. Increasingly, it seems that Google wants all of our data," Malone wrote.

"Google's intentions appear to go well beyond Microsoft and suggest a level of control and power that AT&T, IBM and Microsoft couldn't even dream of. For what they are attempting, the word 'scary' is incredibly inadequate," Enderle said.

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Mike