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Microsoft Testing Rival to Google's Start Page

Posted by timothy on from the well-you-certainly-are-similar dept.

aer0 writes "It looks like Microsoft has quietly put up their version of Google's start page. It's interesting in several ways. First, the layout and use of javascript is strikingly similar to Google's. Second, one of the few major differences is that there is no MS equivalent banner or other flashing indication that it is an MS site."

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  1. ATTENTION LIVEJOURNAL TROLLS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Please troll the living cuntchunks out of this cheating whore! This worthless slut willingly cheated on her hubby AND child, and then tries to blame it on her guy. This cuntsack needs to be trolled through all eternity! If you have a LiveJournal troll account, PLEASE shit on this cunt's day daily until she pukes menstrual wads!

  2. But it doesn't support Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I have to laugh when I read about all of these countries that are
    supposedly leaving Windows and converting to Linux. Do these people
    even have a clue as to what they are in for?
    Do they even realize the immense amount of retraining required to move
    to Linux?
    Do they realize that the chances of their vertical in house
    applications working is nil?
    Do they understand that much of their hardware will not be supported?
    Converting to Linux was a disaster for my company.

    I know I'll be modded 'troll' for this, but its the truth.

    I suspect that the answer to all of these questions and many more will
    be no because Linux looks like a great alternative, until one looks
    closer and sees all of the holes and troublesome problems that Linux
    introduces.

    For my company, we would have had to replace over 2000 Brother
    Multifunction printers with some model that worked with Linux. The
    problem was that we could not find any equivilant.
    We tried using the commercial version of Sun Openoffice and found it
    buggy and totally incompatabile with Office. We tried sending
    documents to our clients and they did not work too well.
    It seems that Openoffice, even the pay for version has troubles being
    read by Microsoft Office.

    Another area that we had massive problems in was with video cards.
    We were using ATI cards in our systems and it seems that Linux support
    for ATI is pretty poor.

    In conclusion, we have decided not to switch to Linux for the simple
    reason that Linux does not offer us anything but headaches.
    We don't want to downgrade out hardware to use Linux.
    We don't wish to look like fools sends documents to clients and
    suppliers that they cannot read.

    Linux may be fine for some people, but it was a disaster for us.

    Maria Quansett