Google / MS Article on Fortune

[simplistik]

It's a couple days late... but it's still a good read.
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,1050065,00.html?

It's an extensive read but a good one. Very interesting stuff in it, about how Google, is slowly toppeling over Microsoft. Interesting... but I guess you can draw your own conclusions from the article. Enjoy the read.

[krnmikel]

wow that is pretty interesting. now microsoft has even more rivals =D.

[G]

great post simplistik, very interesting facts brought up there. I think though that people associate seraching with google now thus getting microsoft to be users search engine will be much harder than offering more features which in itself is very hard.

Also Operating systems, now as a PC user it seem like over the past 2 years definatley Mac's have grown in popularity but Linux has grown immensley, the same story with firefox also look at how fast that thing has spread - I admit at first I had mixed thoughts about adopting that browser but it is genuinely far better than IE.

I think the Microsoft have focused too much on profitability rather than functionality over the last few years - I mean media centre, office all these products are very light improvements on previous versions, media centre is just a slight expansion on XP and to be honest you can do all that anyway with XP provided you have the hardware - you just won't get Media Centres fancy menu.

Also Longhorn has lingered for so long I think people don't care anymore, when we first heard of it we were like "cool", now its been prostponed so many times its starting to sound like an N64 game.

If only Mac would lower their prices and Linux would offer just a little more people would flock to them (I know the mac mini is cheap but I mean the desktop systems).

just my view on things.

[prstudio]

That is a very nice read simp! Thanks :)

And how true it is...

Go Googleteers Go!

by the way, interestingly enough on the new Partner Pack that contains that USB application also listed here in technews...Microsoft makes the "Google Deskbar" available as apart of that...

Someone is trying to piggyback...

[simplistik]

I'm all for anyone that make's Billy boy pee his pants. If he paid more attention to his products I would like him more.... but that's not the case. Hopefully this is somethin that will do the job for him and his sucessor

[ya3]

Also Longhorn has lingered for so long I think people don't care anymore, when we first heard of it we were like "cool", now its been prostponed so many times its starting to sound like an N64 game.
GAH! That only matters to the computer-geek minority group. The rest of the computer-savvy general public will just see "Winblows 2006: a billion new cool features that have already been in OS X for almost a decade" and buy it. *ch-ching!*

[simplistik]

I knew after I said somethin on that other post this post title would be changed :P it's all good though... we all really know what's up :D

[intrudah]

thanks for the read, i didnt know google was doing well enough to have gates come foward like that

the 2 google owners=insipration