free google wifi'd cities  x free google OS, browser and consumer applications + ..mainly.. invisible non-obtrusive ads  + geographic results to neighbourhood stores + backend commisions + in-video ads (buy Jerry's shirt") X underwritten "free" consumer shopping handhelds ...etc etc... =  poor ms

* yes bill talks (and talks) about the tip of the iceburg in tech etc.. but google is buying all the iceburgs

(hah probably not the greatest analogy...im melting...) Wink


Edit - all the above is feasible for google - unless they have a real meltdown on the "EVIL" front

this is why ballmer has got to go.  MS USED TO BE GOOGLE to evil IBM .. now they forget that , are reaming customers with trickily worded Eula, validation, activation, drm, licencing, versions... squuueeezee.. a nickel  ... squeeeeze... a dime...

no one but a sales guy would drive the good ship MS so fast - so blindly into such a hole