Microsoft's Ballmer vows to catch up to Google

This is an interesting post I read, about how Microsoft will beat Google in its tracks, and will catch up to them in 6 months. That's just funny, because it seems every week or almost every day, Google has some news of additional applications they've added. Like for example this week, they announced about their new Google Video Viewer which was just hacked by DVD Jon who also hacked DVD decryption in Linux so DVDs could be played in PCs, sharing of their Google Maps, personalized search, and local search with 3D aerial views. If this keeps up, how can Microsoft beat Google?

Although Ballmer says that Microsoft has something in the works that will allow to search through all applications. Well, interesting times ahead for sure. Microsoft's been able to unseat the #1 players, like how Microsoft IE beat Netscape, Microsoft Windows beat Novell NetWare, Microsoft Word beating WordPerfect and Microsoft Excel beating Lotus 1-2-3. But can Microsoft beat Google, I don't know. Here's an article about the war between Google and Microsoft from Technology Review.

Any comments on this, can Microsoft really beat Google at its own game?