The "Microsoft Search" engine.

[Kotik]

Microsoft, the world's largers software makers, has long promised to release its search engine and now at last it is time for it to come. The new search engine will be very effective and usefull, even compared to Google. The plans are not just to launch the search engine, but to beat Google and its technology.

"We will catch up, we will surpass," Ballmer, from Microsoft, said.

Now Microsoft, Google and Yahoo will be running for the lead in the search engline's world. It will be interesting to see who wins the race.

[ReFredzRate]

I'll still be using Google anyway. There's nothing Google can NOT find It was about time though that Microsoft came up with something usefull... Looks like that's the first since... MS-DOS?

[Malcolm]

Microsoft didn't make dos, or windows, or NTFS or Office, Or ...; they just bought the company that was orignially creating the product, slapped their name on it and shipped it out.

[Kotik]

Microsoft didn't make dos, or windows, or NTFS or Office, Or ...; they just bought the company that was orignially creating the product, slapped their name on it and shipped it out.

Is that true??

[ReFredzRate]

If that's true, then I wanna know who ever did make dos!?

Anyway, Microsoft did release MS-DOS, which was the event I was referring to

[Malcolm]

Yes its true, I'll find you the link to the research (may take a day or 2).

{EDIT}
Or maybe it will just take me 30 seconds, ya-know, whatever:
http://www.euronet.nl/users/frankvw/ran ... ateMS.html

When the IBM representatives showed up at his doorstep, Gates recognized this lucky break for what it was, and promised them an OS. Because he didn't have one and couldn't make one (at least not fast enough) he bought the rights to a CP/M clone from Seattle Computing Products, and filed off the serial numbers.
Again Gates demonstrated his commercial genius at that point. He realized that although the PC was far from superior from a technological point of view, IBM's position as a hardware manufacturer would go a long way to unifying the personal computer market, which had always been rather fragmented. Gates saw visions of minor investments resulting in huge sales figures. Innovation did not come into it at all; at the time the world's buildings, bridges and aeroplanes were mostly developed on Sun workstations running Solaris.
So when IBM demanded exclusive rights to PC-DOS, Gates was adamant: IBM was prohibited from licensing Microsoft's software to 3rd parties but Microsoft itself was free to do so. Microsoft would sell MS-DOS to all interested clone manufacturers, just as they did with BASIC when MITS lost their exclusive rights. Thereby Gates created most of the basis for the PC market as we know it today.

[ReFredzRate]

OMG.... I never knew it was like that