{"id":604269,"date":"2009-11-05T23:57:29","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T04:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/?p=78663"},"modified":"2009-11-05T23:57:29","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T04:57:29","slug":"google-ceo-we-won%e2%80%99t-repeat-microsoft%e2%80%99s-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/604269","title":{"rendered":"Google CEO: We Won\u2019t Repeat Microsoft\u2019s Mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/haynes\/13789959\/sizes\/s\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/13\/13789959_1617e689d6_m.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Google CEO Eric Schmidt is on a bit of a Microsoft offensive. Earlier this week, while talking to press in Boston when Schmidt was asked to comment on a statement by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2009\/11\/google-ceo-eric-schmidt-envisions-the-news-consumer-of-the-future\/\">he said<\/a>, &#8220;I\u2019ve learned not to respond to quotes by Steve Ballmer.&#8221; <em>Oh Snap!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hopefully we won\u2019t repeat the same mistakes that Microsoft did 10 years ago that ultimately led to all these things that have been happening with them,&#8221; Schmidt zinged back today when <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxbusiness.com\/11337505\/google-ceo-on-future-of-technology\/?category_id=1292d14d0e3afdcf0b31500afefb92724c08f046\">FOX Business Network\u2019s Neil Cavuto asked him<\/a> about recent comparisons with Microsoft. I bet Bill Gates must have said the same about IBM.<\/p>\n<p>He also talked about Twitter and Facebook, the economy, the recession, and a whole bunch of other current events during his interview. Actually, this clip is worth watching, and Cavuto is rational in his questions. So if you have time, check it out.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/video.foxbusiness.com\/embed.js?id=11337505&amp;w=400&amp;h=249\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/haynes\/13789959\/sizes\/s\/\">Photo courtesy of Charles Haynes via Flickr.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?w=780\" \/><\/div><div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=Kboz_YIr1ow:ycOqxdGryV4:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=Kboz_YIr1ow:ycOqxdGryV4:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=Kboz_YIr1ow:ycOqxdGryV4:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=Kboz_YIr1ow:ycOqxdGryV4:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=Kboz_YIr1ow:ycOqxdGryV4:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=Kboz_YIr1ow:ycOqxdGryV4:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=Kboz_YIr1ow:ycOqxdGryV4:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=Kboz_YIr1ow:ycOqxdGryV4:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OmMalik\/~4\/Kboz_YIr1ow\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google CEO Eric Schmidt is on a bit of a Microsoft offensive. Earlier this week, while talking to press in Boston when Schmidt was asked to comment on a statement by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, he said, &#8220;I\u2019ve learned not to respond to quotes by Steve Ballmer.&#8221; Oh Snap! &#8220;Hopefully we won\u2019t repeat the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2xch","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}