The sad truth is that Google and Microsoft care less about making cool products than they do about hurting each other,' concludes Lyons. 'Their fighting has little to do with helping customers and a lot to do with helping themselves to a bigger slice of the money we all spend to buy computers and surf the Internet.
For anyone else joining the real world, enjoy your stay. A business making money? This is madness!
This seem to be just an another story of a Google fanboy in his basement discovering that their do-no-evil "friend" is a normal company, a normal business which purpose is to generate revenue. He hasn't yet understood that money doesn't grow in trees and this is how our economy works. For him Microsoft seems like a bad guy because they dare to sell products at a price. Google is the 'cool and hippy' friend who
One slight detail that I hope wont get in the way of your ranting:
ChromeOS is a web OS, and in the browser you can do everything you can do in your regular browser, like changing your search engine to 'Bing', using MS Office 2010 online or Zohoo office, Yahoo mail, and any other competing web service you desire.
Web is the very opposite of a vendor lock-in, there's an unlimited amount of choice and Google always seems to do their best to allow for competition, the best practical example of this is how easy i
Er, no, the whole point of getting your data out into the cloud is that it's stuck there. Once you're invested, you can't let go. From Google's perspective, this is a big win--no matter what computer you have, you're still going to be going to Google. From Microsoft's perspective, it's a big lose: they don't want you to be able to choose a non-Windows computer.
Google doesn't care that you can switch to Bing, because in fact you are locked in to Google, so you won't switch. The good news is that a lo
WinDOS... wow, you are so original, witty and insightful...
I actually like Windows for many reasons, and much to my surprise, Windows 7 was a welcome upgrade. I find there are several Windows apps which are better than any alternatives, for me.
Yes, Microsoft works with hardware vendors to get their OS on hardware.
Apple does the same with their own hardware.
Google is doing the same with ChromeOS.
Welcome to the way the world works.
Its been this way since before MS-DOS started competing against Apple and ev
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The sad truth is that Google and Microsoft care less about making cool products than they do about hurting each other,' concludes Lyons. 'Their fighting has little to do with helping customers and a lot to do with helping themselves to a bigger slice of the money we all spend to buy computers and surf the Internet.
For anyone else joining the real world, enjoy your stay. A business making money? This is madness!
This seem to be just an another story of a Google fanboy in his basement discovering that their do-no-evil "friend" is a normal company, a normal business which purpose is to generate revenue. He hasn't yet understood that money doesn't grow in trees and this is how our economy works. For him Microsoft seems like a bad guy because they dare to sell products at a price. Google is the 'cool and hippy' friend who
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One slight detail that I hope wont get in the way of your ranting:
ChromeOS is a web OS, and in the browser you can do everything you can do in your regular browser, like changing your search engine to 'Bing', using MS Office 2010 online or Zohoo office, Yahoo mail, and any other competing web service you desire.
Web is the very opposite of a vendor lock-in, there's an unlimited amount of choice and Google always seems to do their best to allow for competition, the best practical example of this is how easy i
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Er, no, the whole point of getting your data out into the cloud is that it's stuck there. Once you're invested, you can't let go. From Google's perspective, this is a big win--no matter what computer you have, you're still going to be going to Google. From Microsoft's perspective, it's a big lose: they don't want you to be able to choose a non-Windows computer.
Google doesn't care that you can switch to Bing, because in fact you are locked in to Google, so you won't switch. The good news is that a lo
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Is that a joke? Willfully choosing to use a better product means you're "locked in"? Are you from washington DC?
Re:Business as usual (Score:4, Insightful)
> Is that a joke? Willfully choosing to use a better product means you're "locked in"? Are you from washington DC?
No. It's your rhetoric that is a joke.
Nearly no one ever "chose" to use WinDOS. It just happens to be what all the hardware vendors try to force feed customers.
It's been this way since it was MS-DOS competing against Apple and everyone else that had GUI based systems.
Now if you are talking about people "choosing Apple's walled garden", then you are onto something.
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WinDOS ... wow, you are so original, witty and insightful ...
I actually like Windows for many reasons, and much to my surprise, Windows 7 was a welcome upgrade. I find there are several Windows apps which are better than any alternatives, for me.
Yes, Microsoft works with hardware vendors to get their OS on hardware.
Apple does the same with their own hardware.
Google is doing the same with ChromeOS.
Welcome to the way the world works.
Its been this way since before MS-DOS started competing against Apple and ev