Asher's upcoming dilemma: Google vs Microsoft

[Blake]

* You know you're a geek when you find the concept of "GoogleOS" more arousing than "Hot turkish chicks".

I knew google was awesome from the first time I made a google search, but never would have guessed that google would turn out to be the MS slayer.

[Sava]

Google is nice...

but what is so "awesome" about it?

It's just another search engine IMO... I mean, I type in the same **** in just about any search engine and the same results pop up. It's not as if Google finds some SECRET stuff on the internet that other search engines don't know about.

[Kuciwalker]

Google has better quality results. And a much nicer search page. And fifty billion plugins and stuff that work with it.

[Odin]

Re: Re: Asher's upcoming dilemma: Google vs Microsoft

Originally posted by Ted Striker


GUTEN TAG!!!!!!!!!

Seriously, a hosted OS is not out of the picture. When Internet 2 comes online, (whenever the hell that is), bandwitdh limitations will begin to go away.


Sun Microsystems currently has the technology to host entire applications like SAP for businesses. This means businesses have no hardware, software, etc., installed locally. They have thin client workstations that hook up to the server at Sun's hosting facilities.

If anyone can do it, it's Google.

Internet 2?

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Asher
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_2

[DanS]

What on earth would Google want its own OS for? Maintaining an OS gets expensive.

No, Google can afford to be OS agnostic, while broadening the scope of applications that it offers for all platforms. The fact that you can access Google's services from any OS is already causing Microsoft fits.

[Atahualpa]

Re: Re: Asher's upcoming dilemma: Google vs Microsoft

Originally posted by Ted Striker


GUTEN TAG!!!!!!!!!

Seriously, a hosted OS is not out of the picture. When Internet 2 comes online, (whenever the hell that is), bandwitdh limitations will begin to go away.


Sun Microsystems currently has the technology to host entire applications like SAP for businesses. This means businesses have no hardware, software, etc., installed locally. They have thin client workstations that hook up to the server at Sun's hosting facilities.

If anyone can do it, it's Google.

I thought we had that already in the 80s

[Atahualpa]

Originally posted by Asher
Who are you to be questioning the point of posts when you made this thread?

If you can't see a point in this thread, may I suggest you are in:
STAGE 1: DENIAL!

[Asher]

I think the point of this thread was to illustrate how you have completely missed the point.

My loyalty is to good products, not to a specific brand. MS and Google in fierce competition is awesome news, they'll one-up each other and we all benefit.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Internet 2? This time it's personal?

Damn, you're getting a lot funnier.

[Atahualpa]

easy up, do you hear me talking about you anywhere in the thread? Apart from the title, which was, well less serious than what I posted.


And on topic, I think employee-offshoring is not necessarily competition that is good for the user. MS surely needs its employees to make quality products on time, so I don't know how it should help them and in turn us when the next Windows doesn't have the same standard anymore or takes even longer to finish.
Google's products OTOH always have been just "nice" but apart from their search technology, nothing is really essential.

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by monolith94
honestly, my eyes glazed over all parts of this thread with the exception of hot turkish chicks...

[Ted Striker]

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[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Sava
It's just another search engine IMO... I mean, I type in the same **** in just about any search engine and the same results pop up. It's not as if Google finds some SECRET stuff on the internet that other search engines don't know about.

That's because a lot of other search engines use google results these days.

[Atahualpa]

I agree that this is the future of computing. No more home computers, laptops, pdas, but a giant distributed computer where everyone has access to everywhere using generic interface devices.