Comment Re:They need to take it a step further... (Score -1, Troll) 191
I don't think you quite understand how the whole "sovereign government vs corporation" thing works when sovereign government is not one of a shitty banana republic.
You don't pick fights with governments as a corporation. That is like a little girl walking into a cage with a big gorilla and starting to poke it with a fork. You will have your neck broken.
Instead you infiltrate and subvert that government. Problem being that other corporations get to do the same thing, so you have to fight them for subversion.
Considering the mood about Google across the EU, ultimatums against a major EU member may be viewed as ultimatum against EU. At which point it will be more of a Tyrannosaurus Rex against the said little girl with the fork.
Overall, Microsoft must be looking at the situation and just waiting for Google to fuck up so they can grab the single biggest and most profitable search market in the world. I can already see the arguments before the Commission: "yes, we can fill the void left by Google on much friendlier terms if you choose to legally eject them from the continent for abusing monopolistic rights".
And while many posters on slashdot are actually stupid enough to get that kind of an outcome, I don't doubt for a second that Google's exec team is not.