Google vs Powerpoint counterpart. Microsoft

While the competition still mosert the DoubleClick purchase, Google is already planning the next coup: The Internet company wants to offer a program that is comparable to Microsoft's PowerPoint. With a further technical innovation, Google intends to appease the media giant Viacom.

San Francisco - Unlike its competitor, Microsoft could come from Google, the PowerPoint counterpart "Google Docs & Spreadsheets' use over the Internet and store it on the company's servers, including Google CEO Eric Schmidt told an industry conference. As the buying power point program designed to enable the Google application to create and edit presentations.

Microsoft criticizes Google's DoubleClick purchase:
"The allegations are completely false"
The conflict between Google and Microsoft has intensified in recent days, after the Internet company had taken over the online marketer DoubleClick for $ 3.1 billion U.S. dollars. Microsoft's chief lawyer criticized the DoubleClick purchase merge the two largest providers of Internet advertising and cabinets considerably the competition in the industry. Google and DoubleClick together would turn more than 80 percent of the advertising, an Internet user sees when he drives a website.

Google CEO Schmidt dismissed the accusations: "The allegations are completely false." Microsoft and AT & T had itself carried out its "antitrust skirmishes." Microsoft aims to expand its Internet business significantly and should even have been interested in a takeover of Doubleclick.

Viacom dispute Google wants to solve technical

Dealing with Microsoft is not the only one currently needs to host the Google: The MTV parent Viacom has filed in March in a New York district court against Google and calls for more than a billion dollars in compensation. Google and YouTube would have illegally distributed Viacom programming content, it was said to justify.

Contrast, Google now wants to proceed with technical means: The Internet company wants to install a program, the copyright violations in the video portal Youtube automatically recognize and media companies that facilitated the display says CEO Schmidt. Thus allegations would lapse, Google tolerate the unauthorized copying of other people's videos. With the installation of the new program become the billion lawsuit from Viacom removed from the base, said Schmidt.

Youtube not been prevented from the outset the uploading of copyrighted material. When the portal is, however, prompted by the rights holders to remove it the corresponding video clips from his offer.

Google had taken over from the very popular Internet portal YouTube users in the fall, it will make it a dominant distribution channel for entertainment and simultaneously expand the advertising platform.