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Google takes aim at Microsoft with new PC platform

Source: SAMAA

Sun Valley : NV : USA | 5 months ago

SUN VALLEY: Google Inc is declaring war on Microsoft Corp by seeking to unseat the software giant's globally dominant Windows operating system for personal computers. Google, which already offers a suite of e-mail, Web and other software products that compete with Microsoft, said on Tuesday it would...

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