everybody wants to rule the world...

wired magazine wrote in 2004 (after google's IPO):

"For all their differences, the two companies have a lot in common - Microsoft looks at Google and sees its own past, full of promise. Google looks at Microsoft and sees the future—a swaggering company that dominates the tech landscape"

from pcworld:

Google hopes to do for the notebook what Apple has done with the iPhone: revolutionize the wireless industry by creating a Chrome OS device married to a source for apps like the iTunes App Store