For the first time, Google's revenue edged out Microsoft's sales of Windows for PCs in quarterly results last week, underscoring the rise of the Internet as a focal point of the modern computing
world.
Overall, Microsoft as a company still posts considerably higher revenue than Google, and it still makes a much bigger profit from its PC operating system than Google makes from its
business. But the results show the growing financial clout of Google, founded less than a decade ago. And it explains why Microsoft--at more than 30 years of age--is trying to make itself a viable
competitor in the online market that Google has largely defined.
A simple comparison provides a sense of where things are headed: Microsoft is projecting revenue growth of 9% to 10% in the PC Windows division this fiscal year. Google's revenue growth during the first six months of this year was 60%.
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