Dare Obasanjo calls BS on the difference in treatment of MS/Google announcements by bloggers:

As usual, the technology blogs are full of the Microsoft vs. Google double standard. When Microsoft announced Office Live earlier this year, the response was either muted or downright disappointed because it wasn't a Web-based version of Microsoft Office . An example of such responses is Mike Arrington's post entitled Microsoft Office Live goes into Beta . On the flip side, the announcement of Google Apps for your Domain which is basically a "me too" offering from Google is heralded by Mike Arrington in his post Google Makes Its Move: Office 2.0 as the second coming of the office suite. The difference in the responses to what are almost identical product announcements is an obvious indication at how both companies are perceived by the technology press and punditry.

Some of that is expectations. Sure, there's a double standard to some extent, but people expect more from MS, fairly or not. When you own properties like Office and Windows, that's just part of the game.

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