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I cannot believe the news this evening that Microsoft has been caught lobbying against Google stating that politicians, regulators and the media need to look at the issue of Googles ‘Dominance of search engines’. How can Microsoft number one monopoly holder feel justified to call out anyone else for the same thing!

Microsoft has always complained that it should be allowed to continue to innovate and that all the anti-trust cases damage its ability to produce better products for the end user. Trouble is that Microsoft has not been innovative as a company for many years and is struggling to re-invent itself in the wake of a company that seems to be designed in its very fabric to re-invent and innovate in every breath.

The lobbying seems to revolve around Google’s purchase of DoubleClick which Microsoft purportedly also bid upon and in fact put in a higher bid but was turned down. If you had the choice who would you get in bed with right now? I rest my case.

Although this is certainly going to be embarrassing for Microsoft the real scare for them is not the fact that they are nowhere in search or online advertising. It is more that Google is seriously starting to encroach upon traditional Microsoft territory in the form of Google Apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more..) and seem to have no comeback.

Google were reported to have been ‘Surprised’. Surprised? No, I don’t see that, I think they probably were rolling around laughing. The fact is that the last people that we want to be lectured by on monopoly’s is Microsoft.

Update:
Mashable just covered the story.

Update 2:
Robert Scoble just wrote ‘Why doesnt microsoft get the love‘ well behaving like this does not help them. The most telling part of his story is that Bungie (those of Halo 1-2-3 fame) are a success story of Microsoft, Scoble points at a number of things that Bungie do different to Microsoft as a whole. The problem with this? They were an independent company that Microsoft purchased, part of that purchase was for Microsoft to ‘Leave them alone’, so how was this a success?

I certainly don’t hate Microsoft, but some of the things they do wants to make me want to hate them.