Google Takes On M$

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 9:06 pm

Maybe now people will realize OpenOffice as an alternative source:

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=26734

Forbes poo-poo's it:
http://www.forbes.com/businesstech/2005 ... osoft.html

InfoWorld thinks you should look again:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/a ... 04210.html

Paragon · Post by **Paragon** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 5:04 am

Forbes doesn't know shit. I hate word.

magnesium · Post by **magnesium** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 7:19 am

At the moment most people are used to having to pay for software packages

I can honestly say I'm not used to that at all. Now if Google could just make a free, decent 3D package, I'd be in business.

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 12:48 am

Now they're taking on Ebay:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/1 ... index.html

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:52 pm

M$ fights back in the search engine war:

http://www.live.com/

I'm shocked.

Firefox support is coming soon. Please be patient

So far, it's not bad. It's much more than a search engine, though. How you're allowed to move around parts of the webpage is pretty cool.

EDIT:

It's still a bit buggy (ie. the search page doesn't always pop up when I do a search), but I am in firefox so I'll relent on that. The upcoming features section is nifty, though.

SUMMARY: good features, but they will become bloated/useless once it goes mainstream and hackers get a hold of it.

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 3:13 am

This outta help them:

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/e9f5c0f8-5ab7- ... e2340.html

M$ opens up the Office format.

Tempus · Post by **Tempus** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 10:08 am

wow i never would have thought i would live to see this day

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 3:25 pm

Billy says IBM is the big threat:

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsartic ... xml&rpc=22

No real suprise there.

Though, I can't seem to find the link, but the news that Google is making an OS to be sold on Walmart PC's might be bigger news down the road.

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 1:39 am

Apparently, the Chinese prefer this search engine:

http://www.baidu.com/index.html

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 2:29 pm

Google to build its own version of the internet?

http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/0 ... ml?tid=217

Cringely might have been right.

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 8:07 pm

Verizon getting p!ssy with Google:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01624.html

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:54 pm

M$ fights back against Google Apps:

http://www.news.com/Microsoft-Office-he ... =nefd.lede

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/offic ... 81033.aspx

Though, you can only view for now.

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 11:48 am

Ballmer says they will be the dominant search engine and that Google is a one-trick pony:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071019/ap_ ... mer_google

But Google's hiring like crazy so everyone thinks they're up to something:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/200710 ... upatgoogle

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 8:42 pm

gOS, Google's attempt at an operating system on the Walmart Linux PC:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a ... =902&num=1

Paragon · Post by **Paragon** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 4:10 pm

it looks pretty slick. ANd I'm p!ssed off at both Windows and Valve, for changing the OS environment and requiring specific builds of said OS.