Wow. Microsoft is nothing whether not brazen. When you think of Microsoft you normally don’t think of these words, at least not together, yet these words came from Microsoft’s general counsel, Brad Smith, in response to Google’s complaint that a Microsoft and Yahoo! tie up would be poor for the Web:

Microsoft is committed to openness, innovation, and the protection of privacy on the World Wide Web.

Microsoft? Committed to openness? Microsoft has been committed to destroying openness by the years, and Brad Smith has played an integral role in that strategy, defying the US Justice branch and the world’s consumer. I think highly of Brad, but I find that guile to be galling in the extreme.

Google is precisely right in calling out Microsoft’s cheek:

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Orginal post by Matt Asay