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Google Declares War on Microsoft
hajmola writes "According to an article in The Inquirer, 'Google has confirmed that it will launch free spreadsheet and word-processing software online and take on Microsoft in one of its biggest markets. Under the deal, Google will allow web users to access Sun's OpenOffice from a toolbar.'" This is full confirmation of a story from Tuesday. Forbes thinks this isn't anything to write home about, while InfoWorld disagrees.
Where do I enlist...
(This is one war I think protesters will be null)
- Your stupidity got you into this mess, why can't it get you out? -Will Rogers
Do you really want the future of web processing to be entirely web based and saved on somebody else's machine?
That would be word processing and the reason that preview exists. Oh well ;)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Install OpenOffice?
Better get Steve Ballmer some more chairs...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/05/chair_chuc king/
Don't worry, it'll all work offline. However, the toolbar download is over 500MB.
qntm.org
"You'd think journalists would be more careful, this soon after the single-use DVD hoax"
Oh yeah, I'm sure every "journalist" in the country did alot of soul-searching after that.
ZERO
4. Steve Balmer dies from myocardial infarction
This has been a test. Had this been a real emergency, we would have fled in terror and you would not have been informed.
You'd think SLASHDOT editors (and the use of that term here gets looser and looser every day) would notice it, especially twice in two days.
Tomorrow on slashdot: read about the new browser Google will build, based on Netscape's Mozilla!
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
Does anyone know of any previous cases where companies have taken fairly successful desktop applications and made them accessible on the web?
Sure. Hotmail.
I guess this mean's Microsoft will now buy Google, and then proceed to completely fuck it up.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
It's about time. I wanna see those Google tanks take on the Microsoft cyborgs with all the cluster bombing and the killing and Redmond getting nuked and I wouldn't wanna fuck around with Steve Ballmer, I can just imagine him in a torn shirt and a bandana armed with a minigun and stabbing the wounded with his bayonet and Bill Gates wired into some massive battle computer and Steve Jobs just biding his time waiting for them to destroy each other so he can piss on the ashes.......... Man, this is some good coffee!!!
Tomorrow on slashdot: read about the new browser Google will build, based on Netscape's Mozilla!
Amazing! Will you be able to launch it from a toolbar button?
$x='S24;r)>63/* h@<5+oZ)32"5cz';$me='phroggy'x$];
$x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
Apparently Google is in possession of documents claiming Microsoft is in possession of Weapons of Mass Distribution.
In related news, it has been reported that Clippy was an early casualty - he took a direct hit from a sniper in the semi-colon. At the end, he simply wiggled his eyes, straightened, and flew away.
Some settling may occur during posting.
Will this be a web-based browser?
True confidence comes not from realising you are as good as your peers, but that your peers are as bad as you are.
File -> new document -> templates -> report -> I'm feeling Lucky!
Inquirer's article is so grossly irresponsible, and the summary so inaccurate, that I think this should just be removed
My turnips listen for the soft cry of your love
Yeah, that's what I thought too, but you've just gotta read between the lines! From the first link:
... take on Microsoft. ...
... Google ... met up, ... wary ... point blank, McNealy said ... was something to be investigated. However Sun's Australian spokesman Paul O'Connor was a little more forthright ... he ... bubbled ... wa[r]s ... for Microsoft.
GOOGLE HAS confirmed that it will
The other day, when Sun's Scott McNealy and
See, there ya go!
Seriously, where are you going to go worth going if it doesn't have network access.
;-)
C'mon, your a geek. More than 20 ft from a hotspot or a enet jack and you start to get the shakes...
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
probably more like:
Invent and write story in blog that the company everybody loves is going to destroy the company everybody loves to hate. People believe it because they want to.
Buy stock in the company everybody loves to hate at a discount.
Wait 3 days for everybody to realize its just lies.
Sell stock for big profit.
News Flash, SEC starts to investigate bloggers.
----- If communism is a system where the government owns business, what do you call a system where business owns govern
I still haven't heard back from Richard Gere's gerbil; you may be on to something.
:)
Aw, crap. GOOGLE rumor.
Ignore me, I'll learn to read better next time
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
What!? You don't have wireless in your bathroom!? What kind of crappy college is that?
I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar.
Upgrade in process.....
:p
hahaha... That's one way to handle a slashdotting
It's the sound of hundreds of chairs in being violently thrown across rooms in Redmond...
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Microsoft to heavily invest in chairs. Balmer rumored to be working out.