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Microsoft is fighting lot of battles - that is one problem of being big. OS : Windows vs OS X, Linux, Solaris, and now Google Chrome OS Email : Hotmail/Live vs GMail, YMail Search : Bing vs Google,Yahoo.. Database : MS Sql Server vs Oracle,MySQL,PostgreSql.. IM : MSN Messenger vs GTalk, Yahoo Messenger,IRC,Pidgin Programming platform : .NET vs Java.. Languages : C#,VB.NET,ASP.NET vs Java, Ruby,Python,PHP,Perl.. Mobile OS : Windows Mobile vs Android, OS X, Symbian.. Media player : Zune vs iPod, Creative, Sony.. Office Suite : Microsoft Office vs OpenOffice, Google Apps Browser : Internet Explorer vs Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera Gaming Platform : XBox vs Nintendo, Sony and now iPhone Vector graphics for web : Silverlight vs Flash, Flex My head is spinning. If you notice the ones on the right of VS - for instance Opera - that is their entire life - the reason for their existence. They are focusing all their energies and souls into their products -yet Microsof...

Following the phenomenal success of BING ( aka - Bing is not Google) which is actually Microsoft's Live search renamed and a 100 Million dollar marketing budget , Microsoft is preparing more product launches along similar lines. PINIP - Pinip is Not iPod. Bloggers will go crazy with this name - Zune never had the hipness to it. Along with a 1000 Million dollar budget, they can use the money to buy it off the shelves and prove Zune has more market share than iPod. MINO - Mino is not Oracle. With Oracle now owning MySQL the rich and poor use Oracle's databases. By renaming MS Sql server with a jazzy name like MINO - Oracle will have to forego hogging the database market and instead concentrate on reviving the companies it killed by buying them - like PeopleSoft, Sun etc. VINOSX - Of course you guessed it right - V is not OS X and is actually Vista repackaged. Difficult to pronounce but with a 100000 Million dollar marketing budget with lots of youtube ads, banner ads, televis...