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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

Forbes doesn't know shit. I hate word.

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.

Now they're taking on Ebay:


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

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.

This outta help them:


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

M$ opens up the Office format.

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

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.

Apparently, the Chinese prefer this search engine:

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

Google to build its own version of the internet?

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


Cringely might have been right.

Verizon getting p!ssy with Google:

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

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.

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

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

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

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.