Microsoft's Google suit
Microsoft filed suit today against Google and a seven-year Microsoft executive, Kai-Fu Lee, who left the Redmond company yesterday to go to work for the search company.
Click here to download a copy of the complaint filed in King County Superior Court. Microsoft is basing its claims on a non-compete clause in Lee's employment agreement. In a statement, Google said it considered Microsoft's suit to be without merit.
See this Associated Press story for more background. Here's the press release in which Google announced the hiring of Lee to head a new research and development center in China. And here is Lee's biography on the Microsoft home page, updated to reflect his departure.
Posted by Todd Bishop at July 19, 2005 04:41 PM
Amazing... The worlds biggest monopoly is crying foul. Perhaps Gates and Balmer should fess up to the fact that other than MSDOS, MS Office suite, and the PC Mouse; Microsoft has not invented one single thing.For the last 6 years Microsoft has constantly playing catch up with the rest of the computer industry.I would think it highly unlikely that Google could find much in the Microsoft world that they would use.Google is so far out in front of MS it's laughable.. The day is coming when MS finally takes a long overdue fall.
