Dude, you got Chrome on my Bing

In reading Cringely’s article, Chrome vs. Bing vs. You and Me, I started to think Google and Microsoft were operating in an oligopoly relationship, but then there’s nothing in this op-ed to suggest that they’re working strategically or worried about undoing each other. In fact, I hadn’t thought, before, of the remarkably symbiotic relationship between Windows users and Google. I wonder what the value is to the bottom line of giving engineers more than 20% of their time for R&D when it will hardly impact profits at all – it’s insignificant. I just hope their standoff doesn’t adversely impact the value of our sidebar ads!