The Motley Fool has been fooling around with Google’s reputation, especially in the software field, where it splashes but rarely shines. After listing Google’s recent releases and opining that … well, could sort of do better, the jesters arrive at the earnings results, due later today:

“Meanwhile, Fools have talked about some of the possibilities for Google in the near future — could it miss, and could that miss come sooner rather than later? What about the idea — recently voiced here in the virtual halls of Fooldom — that while Google has been promising lately, maybe Microsoft has been delivering?”

Ouch! Tough but true. The old hacks at Redmond are not lying down and thinking of New England. No way. Bill Gates has said he fears IBM more than Google. And well he might, in his segment of the archaosphere.

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