No wonder that Microsoft is trying to do some steps to directly compete Google. Although Google is doing the same to Micrsoft but it seems that Microsoft is so serious about it that there came a time that Microsoft tried to buy Yahoo just to get its technology that might kill Google.

Now, I understand why.

With the report that Mark Lucovsky, an Engineering Director, is leaving Google for VMware, the story about the incident happened between Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmerand Mark Lucovsky before surfaced as told by MG Siegler of Techcrunch.

But Lucovsky may be best known for the role he played in a complete and utter meltdown that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer once had. As the NT architect, Lucovsky was clearly pretty vital to Microsoft, so when he went in for a meeting with Ballmer in 2004 to let him know he was leaving, you can be sure the CEO was a bit on edge.

“Just tell me it’s not Google,” Ballmer reportedly said according to court documents (for a case surrounding another Google ex-Microsoft hire). When Lucovsky said it was Google, Ballmer allegedly picked up a chair and threw it across the room.

What he apparently said next, will live on forever in Internet history.

“Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I’m going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to fucking kill Google.”

Schmidt, is of course, Google’s CEO. When Lucovsky still wasn’t convinced, Ballmer alledgedly went on to say, “Google’s not a real company. It’s a house of cards.”

So up to this time, Microsoft still hates Google.