Google, Yahoo mount challenge to Microsoft
crn.com | at | by Mike
For the first time since Web browser pioneer Netscape Communications Corp. hit the market in the mid-1990s, Microsoft's stranglehold on computer desktops is being threatened. Microsoft faces two rivals , Google, the world's most popular Web surfing vehicle, and Yahoo, the Internet's most popular destination.
Its dominance may seem unassailable, given that its Windows operating system controls all but a small fraction of the world's personal computers. But as the Internet consumes an increasing amount of people's computer time, the plumbing provided by Microsoft is becoming less important than the online agenda that increasingly is being set by trailblazing Web companies like Yahoo and Google.