Google now worth more than Microsoft

I'm somewhat surprised it took this long. Given that google feels like 'the future' and Microsoft is still clinging to the past. Someone at IBM head quarters probably had a bottle chilled for this occasion, small consolation though it must be for them.<p>What would it take for Microsoft to pull an 'Apple', and what would it take for IBM to really rebound?<p>Yahoo is in the process of trying to turn tables on Google which is a an attempt I don't have much faith in (mostly because Yahoo never managed to capture much of my interest in the first place so I find it hard to imagine to see them work their way out of the hole). But Microsoft just <i>might</i> have it in them somewhere to really come out swinging. But since Bill Gates isn't hurting in any way and more than content to let Ballmer do his thing it likely won't ever happen.<p>Microsoft was/is a large enough empire that it will take a very long time (many decades) before they're gone but this is a definite sign that their days of hegemony are over, they got surpassed rather than that they were out-competed.

That's cool, but as a consumer I don't care one bit. Market cap, sales, revenues, I just don't care at all.<p>These are much more important "metrics" to me personally (as a consumer):<p>* Innovation relative to peers.<p>* The value of their offerings to me in my daily life.<p>* How they treat their developers, developers, developers.<p>If you're looking at this from the lens of an investor, overall market cap/worth/whatever, it's a completely different story. However, I think most of us will be comparing the two companies by means that are more directly to us as individuals.

Google has always been worth more than Microsoft (to me).

That was a spectacularly badly written article. It was so bad I had to force myself to read it.

It's been back and forth. GOOG was worth more than MSFT until quite recently, but MSFT was up 18% in April.

Google has been worth more than Microsoft for months...