This is how Microsoft and Google attack each other

San Francisco, New York The head of Google’s parent company Alphabet, Sundar Pichai, came to tell a success story. “I’m pleased with the business,” he said when presenting the quarterly figures on Tuesday. For the first time in the company’s history, the CEO was able to report a profit for the important cloud division. But the analysts mainly asked critical questions: about the strength of rival Microsoft and Google’s sluggish strategy in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).

Sundar Pichai has been working at Google for two decades and he only knew the rise – both for himself personally to the top of the company and for the group. Google is the world’s dominant provider of Internet searches with a market share of around 90 percent in many countries such as Germany and the USA.