• VentureBeat, Friday, July 10, 2009 1:56 PM

Walid Abu-Hadba, Microsoft's VP of Developer and Platform Evangelism, issued some fighting words following the unveiling of Google's new Chrome OS. In an interview with VentureBeat's Anthony Ha, Abu-Hadba insisted that Chrome was a defensive move. "Most of what Google does is defensive," he said.

How can Google be playing defense when it's entering a market for the first time? According to Abu-Hadba Google is trying to distract competitors from attacking search, the company's cash cow. He argued that whenever Google enters a new market, like releasing mobile operating system Android, it's trying to force competitors to focus on their existing products instead of challenging search. Meanwhile, Abu-Hadba says Google is feeling threatened in search for the first time in years, with Microsoft's less-than-a-month old new search engine, Bing.

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