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Microsoft Wants to Take on Google
blenderking writes "We do view Google more and more as a competitor. We believe that we can provide consumers with a better product and a better user experience. That's something that we're actively looking at doing,", says Bob Visse, director of marketing for Microsoft's MSN Internet services division, said. Full article at: Yahoo. This could have fit in with yesterday's April Fool's stories..."
straight. You are actually condoning violence JUST to get M$ out of the way? Why? Suppose OSS did suceed by employing such tactics. Well guess what, you have just set a precedent. That means that ANYONE else can do the same thing, empoy your ex-employees to write viruses against you (or in OS case band a bunch of devs to dot he job just so their distro could win), and so in a viscious circle it will go. That is why Nazis DIDN't use poison gas during WWII, they knew that if they did they would also have to pay the price, and both sides had huge, and extremely effective quantaties of poison gas/chemichals. Same with US and USSR, they both had nukes, and yet they havent used them, that is because of MAD (mutually assured destruction). NO, the ony way to unseat microsoft is to actually organize, band together, and stand up. Make products that are superior in every way, cheap and yet simple to use. That is the only way to slay the beast that is now M$. Yeah i realize that this sounds kind of paranoid, but just think about it, say a group does form a little "cyberterrorist alliance" (no i dont mean the anti_US crap, i mean anti M$, so say they do a whole lot of attacks, and largely suceed in bringing down windoze boxen, then what M$ has 80 Billion$ in the bank, what makes you think that they couldnt hire just as much, if not even more people and do the same thing to us? Somehow i dont think (for example) a whole building full of hindu programmers actually care for "open source". Pay them money, tell them what to do, and voila you've got war on your hands. Ok i have ranted enough :) these are all what-if scenarios, not accurate (probably), but i hope that they have at least got something that even remotely resembles a shred of a point across.
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MSN Search is bundled into IE. It's where you go if you hit the search button, and it's where you end up when the page you asked for isn't found.
...and people use Google anyway, even those people stupid enough to still be using Windows and IE. They actually take the time to type google.com.
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Maybe the first practical application of Artificial Intelligence will be the comprehensive recognition and disposal of advertisements and spam :)
And the next step will be the comprehensive disposal of your favorite websites unless you pay significant amounts of money per month to view them. Fuck people like you. (although I agree on the spam thing)
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Cardinal Sergey Brin and gang rush into the room.
NOBODY beats Google!! Google's chief weapon is simplicity...simplicity and power...power and simplicity...
Google's two weapons are power and simplicity...and speed...
Google's three weapons are power, simplicity, and speed...and an almost fanatical dedication to the yielding of accurate and pertinent results. Google's four... no... amongst Google's weaponry are such elements as power, simplicity, speed, and
[A LOUD GONG IS RUNG]
NOBODY beats google! Amongst their weaponry are such diverse elements as: power, simplicity, and speed, and an almost fanatical dedication to the yielding of accurate and pertinent results... and clever logos on holidays- Oh damn!
Yeah, I know it's too late for mod points, but I just couldn't help it.