Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella vs. Google

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🗓️ 7 October 2023

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Summary

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified this week in Google's antitrust case in Washington, D.C., supporting the U.S. Justice Department's contention that the search giant unfairly leverages its market power to stifle competition, a charge that Google vehemently disputes.

On this episode of the podcast, we reenact portions of Nadella's testimony, explain the positions staked out by Microsoft and Google in the case, and discuss the irony of Microsoft siding with the DOJ two decades after fighting its own antitrust battle against the agency.

Read additional excerpts in this GeekWire Post: What Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in court about Google, Apple, search, and the future of AI

Plus, Generative AI and the "Ghost of Lesser Seattle." We revisit our attempt to channel the late, great Seattle newspaper columnist Emmett Watson with the help of ChatGPT, and assess the reaction.

With GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop and John Cook.

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0:00.0	So John, you will be playing the role of Adam Severt, who is a lawyer for the Department of Justice.
0:06.9	So in this scenario...
0:07.7	And what's his background?
0:09.3	What accent should I use?
0:12.0	Is he Southern?
0:13.0	Is he from Alaska?
0:14.6	I want to really get into this.
0:16.2	He's got a flat Ohio accent.
0:17.8	Okay.
0:18.3	That's perfect.
0:25.7	Hi, and welcome to Geekwire. I'm Geekwire co-founder Todd Bishop. And I'm Geekwire co-founder John Cook. We are coming to you from Seattle,
0:30.6	where we get to report each day on what's happening around us in technology, business, and innovation.
0:35.4	What happens here matters everywhere. And every week on this show, we talk about some of the most interesting stories in the news.
0:41.4	Coming up later on, a dramatic reenactment here in the Geekwire Studios of Microsoft CEO
0:49.5	Satya Nadella's testimony in the Google antitrust case in Washington, D.C. As read by Todd Bishop and John Cook. Yes. What role are you playing? I'm going to play Sotcha. Is that okay? What am I doing? You're going to be a couple of different lawyers. Okay. I can handle that. You know, that's funny because there was no live stream and there's no audio from the courtroom.
1:12.8	However, I was able to get a hold of the transcripts, which we can, at least in part, reenact.
1:18.5	And I picked a couple of very telling passages that we'll have later on.
1:22.6	I'm going to have to go back to my Thespian days here.
1:25.3	Were you in theater?
1:26.2	I was.
1:27.2	Musical theater. And speaking of Microsoft, I don't know if we want to go there. Yeah, that's okay. But you know the history, it ties into Microsoft. Oh, sure. My classmate, as I knew him, Judd Altaf, a very senior executive runs essentially the sales organization at Microsoft. He was in my high school class in Worcester,
1:44.7	Ohio, and he was actually a fantastic Thespian. Well, we could have gotten him in here to read. That would been awesome. I don't think that would go over as well. All right. Well, coming up later on, stick around for that. Clearly, with this buildup, you're going to want to wait. I'm excited. But first, the Geekwire Summit is coming up on October 19th.
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