Microsoft and Google Set to Wage Arms Race - New York Times

Microsoft and Google Set to Wage Arms Race - New York Times: "For its part, Google wants to avoid becoming the 'next Netscape,' a reference to the early leader in the browser market that Microsoft eventually thwarted.
'A lot of the people who are at the center of Google had done hand-to-hand combat with Microsoft in the 90's, and I don't think they have forgotten,' observed John Battelle, the editor of SearchBlog, a Web log on search technology.
The group includes Eric E. Schmidt, Google's chief executive and former executive of Sun Microsystems; Omid Kordestani, its senior vice president for sales and a former Netscape executive; and John Doerr, a Google director and venture capitalist who was a prime backer of Netscape, Sun Microsystems and other Microsoft rivals."