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[TravisSichel]

Google kicks ass. That said, I would never trust these cloud based app thingies. I like to have the software installed.

Coming from the country with possibly the worst internet in the world(Australia. Hell even my WiFi sometimes drops out and I have to reset it >_<

[bikdav]

And the battle begins _ gloves off.

[MarkClancey]

Google is the best development ever on the desktop, bar none. Free at last from the clutches of Microsoft Office, desktop and mobile productivity is on the rise everywhere and costs have plummeted.

Big Blue Screen can't compete with Google in the cloud just as applications on the PC are fast becoming passe. Finally freedom rings on the desktop. Well, almost.

Where Google is fumbling and stumbling badly is with Chrome OS. Poised to make Windows irrelevant with its thin and light OS coupled to its Docs application cloud, Google has all but squandered a golden opportunity to supplant the Windows/Office duopoly with a liberating alternative. Instead of a landmark and revolutionary development in personal computing, Google has treated Chrome OS like a college IT project suffering from Toga Party hangovers.

Whether Google delivers on the promise of an epically liberating computing platform will have everything to do with Google and nothing to do with Microsoft.

[ClaudeD]

Because Google is the the most dangerous company to microsoft's bottom line.

[Sourav8y9s]

Microsoft doesn't have to be afraid of Google. King is king. The software giant knows well how to business.

[anonymousr46j]

Do I have to read the article to give MY answer? Cause they are both in the software business.

[anonymousr46j]

anonymousr46j, on 24 February 2012 - 08:22 AM, said:

Do I have to read the article to give MY answer? Cause they are both in the software business.

Just read the article. As I said, they are both in the software biz, that why

[shanedr]

That's because Microsoft is just as enamored of the "Cloud" as Google is.

The trouble is the "Cloud", which is a nice place to visit and get some work done, is not a place I want myself nor my computer to live in.

I still want a standalone computer to safeguard my data and it's privacy. There is enough danger of being hacked as it is, I do not need to place my private data out in the cloud where it is even more likely to be hacked.

The bottomline is I will continue to want an independent operating system on my standalone computer behind an effective mechanical and software barricade to protect my privacy. Microsoft and Google will just have to realize that I will not be giving up that critical necessity of my existence.

[Chris7bdt]

I dislike Microsoft but not as much as google...At least Bing gives me my link without having to sroll through 30 paid ads... if it weren't for googles better flash I would delete it from my computer forever....

[csievert]

TravisSichel, on 23 February 2012 - 05:28 PM, said:

Google kicks ass. That said, I would never trust these cloud based app thingies. I like to have the software installed.

Coming from the country with possibly the worst internet in the world(Australia. Hell even my WiFi sometimes drops out and I have to reset it >_<

I'm wondering why you would trust google over microsoft when from my experience I have to scroll down to the 2nd page in google to get to the link I want when it is at the top of my list when I use Bing? Thats for my BANK! Google in my opinion long ago sold out to questionable advertisers! What does a home morgage have to do when I type in my Credit Union? I want to check my account not refi my home... BUT in Google I have to go to the 2nd PAGE to do it when Bing gives me my bank at the TOP of MY LIST?

This post has been edited by coastie65: 25 February 2012 - 04:45 AM

[deepsand]

So long as Google's applications remain 2nd-3rd rate, it is never going to penetrate the enterprise market.

Even in the consumer market, it remains a laggard with the exception of on-line search and syndicated advertising.

All of this is a natural consequence of its having tied itself to the ad revenue model.

[deepsand]

anonymousr46j, on 24 February 2012 - 08:22 AM, said:

Do I have to read the article to give MY answer? Cause they are both in the software business.

Not so for Google.

Google is an advertising firm masquerading as an IT services provider.

[jazzy007]

Google is a company that is swinging the bat at everything hoping to hit a home run like the first time but just striking out constanly. They want to be on every business. Facebook, they got Google+. Microsoft Office, they got Google Document. Iphone, they got Android, and the list goes on and on and on. Mostly have been failure. When someone talks about these failure they say it was in beta test. They are just hopping they hit a home run like with their search engine. But the only other thing they beat with a home run is the FBI. They have more information about you then the FBI ever hoped for.

[deepsand]

And they don;t even own or develop the Android OS; all they own is the brand name itself. Ownership belongs to the consortium that does the actual development.

Aside from their SE, Google's true successes have been confined to a mere two of that which they bought, YouTube, and Google Analytics, nee Urchin, neither of which generate revenue. In fact, YT operates at a loss.

AdWords was copied from Overture, and succeeds solely by riding the coattails of its SE.