Microsoft Versus Google

http://news.com.com/Court+docs+Ballmer+vowed+to+kill+Google/2100-1014_3-5846243.html

Looks like Google infuriates Microsoft, stealing their staff, as well as threatening their market shares (battle of browsers between firefox and IE, of messengers between Google talk and messenger, email services between Gmail and hotmail ... Google may start sponsoring an open source Operating System soon!).

Your best assets if you are a company such as Google or Microsoft are people - nothing new here, but we tend to forget about it. Technology, Market shares, etc... are nothing if you cannot bring in new talents, and keep your best breeds. This is the kind of crisis Microsoft is now facing, and it hurts more than anything else.