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Ballmer - Trusting Vista and Battling Google
Carnivore24 wrote to mention a C|Net article discussing Steve Ballmer's morning keynote at Gartner's Symposium/ITxpo. From the article: "'I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life,' Microsoft's CEO said ... Ballmer also touched on a variety of areas related to Microsoft's competition with Google. The software maker will compete 'the good old-fashioned way, with innovation,' he said. 'There are many things--who knows?--Google may or may not do. If you read the papers today, other than curing cancer, Google will do everything.'"
he meant Microsoft, then more power to Google!
Sorry, Steve. I have it on good authority that this is also in their roadmap.
Who believes this screwup and his FUD any more?
Steve Magruder, Metro Foodist
I'll root for google up until the day they become too big for their (b)riches, at which point I'll root for the next underdog.
VIVA AMERICA!
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Um, wern't the "old fashioned" ways using teams of hired mercs to wage priovate wars with? Or am I just reading too many M-rated books?
Yet another story to fuel the anger of Slashdotters towards Microsoft and to hail Google as abosolutely good.
The sound you hear the is the hundred Slashdotters typing anti-Microsoft and pro-Google remarks at lightning speed.
Doesn't anyone ever get tired of this and want some actual NEWS?
'I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life,'
First stage: Denial
Quote "People say 'I'm going to MSN you' in Holland and Korea"
What he means folks, is that he has thrown a chair dishonestly.
Fidelity Research Group has found the key to curing cancer lies within "the matrix" of webpages indexed by google. When MD5 sums and other hashing technology are used to create a 3d visulation of a "cube" with the translation algorithem or "key" hidden in the verticies of the cube's corners. Sources close to FRG indicate that "[google] has cured cancer!!!111onr"
If you read the papers today, other than curing cancer, Google will do everything.
Sounds like the media has it right for a change.
"I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life."
Sure Steve, and I'm not the guy who hacked the announcements system when I was in high school. Face it. It's what you're famous for. Make use of it.
Wow, MS a bit scared of the little search engine that could. And my good old competetion we mean being bullies and playing monopoly.
From the comment above I suspect he's been reading Slashot on a regular basis lately.
Steve Ballmer was quoted as saying "Fucking Mark Lukovsky a is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Mark Lukovsky for starting that chair rumor!" after he denied throwing a chair.
This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
I'm afraid that he's going to fucking kill me.
You're all bastards!
I don't know many cancer researchers who don't use Google, Google news or Google Scholar to keep tabs on their competition.
SLASHDOT: news for people who can't concentrate on work or have no life at all and got tired of yelling back at the TV.
and it vows to quit and move to google first chance it gets.
From the article:
"...such as efforts to improve the Web browser and make the operating system more resilient."
Uh - could I uninstall one and keep the other? I doubt it.
"Live as if you'll die tomorrow." Ridiculous. You could die later today.
"'I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life,' "
But once I did see a man dance like a monkey...
I work for Steve Ballmer, so I am reading these comments with great interest and no small amusement. He most certainly did not throw a chair. He threw his whole fucking credenza into the hallway and kung-FUDded it to splinters.
Hey, google could be working on that, too...
Hey, Balmer, remember IBM? And remember how they never really got into this 'PC' thing, and you took over their role as 'very big computer company?' If I were you, I'd start doing more Internet stuff rather than trying to convince yourselves other people 'MSN' each other. Of course, MSN may be some sort of offensive slang, I dunno.
Any grammatical or spelling errors above are for comic effect, and do not signify imperfection in the writer.
For decades we've had to face losing important work to power outages. But Internet outages are just as menacing -- and indeed, where one can get a battery to power their digital workhorses there is no such analog for Internet power. Not to mention the inherent threat of viruses spyware or hackers that comes from Internet connectivity, or frankly the less than cohesive user experience and unconsistent interface websites present.
Despite being oft (and many times unfairly) maligned by self-proclaimed computer experts Microsoft has irrevocably broken the yoke of the client-server relationship that has held computing back and is single-handedly responsible for the microcomputer revolution. The last twenty-five years would not have been impossible without them, and it's pure fantasy to suggest otherwise.
Consequently, I don't think it will be a question of whether or not we will be using Vista but merely how Microsoft will have managed to improve upon the mostly unimproveable experience of Windows XP. If they compete with anything, it will be their own success.
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"I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life."
"I have never, honestly, used Microsoft's position as a monopoly in any illegal way to undermine fair competition or to fix prices."
HONEST!
-- Game Developers: Stop porting badly-textured games from crappy console systems!
"'I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life,' Microsoft's CEO said
Right. All Chief Executives make these kind of proclaimations, sometimes just before they are indicted.
He should have just ignored the issue. What is really imporatant is how Microsoft's stock has performed and how their product shipment schedules have been met since he took control of the day-to-day operation at Microsoft. Whether or not he threw a chair in a confrontation is a sideshow and irrelevent to running a multi-billion dollar corporation.
Keeping his eye on the company's bottom line is the most important task he has, not responding to every disclosure in a deposition.
"Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life,
he added "Kicked across a room yes, picked it up and thrown it no." Who ever actually throws chairs? I've seen people kick chairs before, but never throw them.
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"Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers."
Let me extrapolate on Balmer's Microsoft competes the "Good old-fashioned way":
We will own more congressman and senators than Google, and then we will make Google against the law, and then make it illegal for them to index any Class-C address web-site, and then we will buy all Class-B addresses and then patent them, and make it so only Windows machines can reach a Class-B address. After than we will have our congressmen and Senators pass a law making IP-v6 illegal, thereby protecting our hold on addresses. Then we will go to Europe and outlaw X.25.
That's just a good old-fashioned microsoft technology battle.
For not curing cancer?
-Rick
"Most people in the U.S. wouldn't know they live in a tyrannical state if it walked up and grabbed their junk." - MyFirs
Ballmer's totally right, guys. Microsoft has always relied on innovation to compete in the market.
After all, they *invented* Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
Skype is too convoluted... Now I'm reverse-engineering the Kyoto Protocol.
"Hey, I MSN'd your mom last night."
"This software is such a piece of MSN!"
"MSN you, MSN-wad!"
"It burns when I pee. I think she gave me MSN."
Okay, I'll stop now.
"Live as if you'll die tomorrow." Ridiculous. You could die later today.
The software maker will compete 'the good old-fashioned way, with innovation
So this speech was about a big change in Redmond?
I didn't know that innovation was defined as "buying small companies and stealing ideas in order to fund a monopoly" in the English language.
...is how he managed to dishonestly throw a chair?
I mean, that takes talent.
Someone had to do it.
Have they really started smoking some bad sort of GM pot there, or why else would anyone want to say that kind of thing?
I've never tried Microsoft's search engine. This article made me pause a bit and ask why.
The reason may not be entirely rational, but I just don't feel like I can trust MSN. It isn't just a blanket mistrust of Microsoft; writing a memo on Word doesnt' make me uneasy. I think the issue is that Microsoft has such an obvious lust to control the economic and technological ground on which information is created, processed, stored and distributed, my subconscious impression is that I couldn't rely on their search results as not having some kind of strategic agenda embedded in it.
Of course, may not be wise not to trust Google either, but they are in the informaiton as information business, not in the business yet of setting themselves as the ground on which all transactions have to occur. The most important asset they have is user trust. In many ways, Google is the closest thing we have to the old newspaper business model: we give you information, and support that service by advertising around the information. Newspapers these days tend to be part of media empires with financial interests that go beyond the old fashioned cussede political biases.
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yeah, i know... flamebait written all over that subject title.
Really, my question is... what seperates a *good* big coorporation from a *bad* big coorporation? I like Google. They are innovative and embrace simplicity and they are free. They are however huge and growing fast. What will keep them from succumbing to big, evil, capitalistic empire syndrome? Is it just a natural tendency for succeeding US businesses to do that or is there another way?
Microsoft probably wouldn't be hated so much for their monopoly if they didn't write such crappy software.
Well, I have thrown a few chairs in my lifetime. I admit it. Sadly, Ballmer is too far away for me to hit with one.
Isn't "The software maker will compete 'the good old-fashioned way, with innovation" line a dead giveaway? MS does not have a good track record for innovation; history has shown them to be the company that comes up with software that does what already-existing software does. IE 7's tabbed browsing, for example. They're really, really late to jump on that bandwagon.
I dream of a better world... one in which chickens can cross roads without their motives being questioned.
> The software maker will compete 'the good old-fashioned way, with innovation,' he said.
In the language of Redmond, compete means spread FUD, and innovate means copy shoddily, that is plain.
No, but he has thrown a chair in dishonesty.
... and then they built the supercollider.
....,probably pulled from here:
"Look up "derivative" in the dictionary and see if that reminds you of how MS describes their "innovation"."
I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life
I think there was a transcription error in that qoute. He meant something more like this:
I have never honestly-thrown a chair in my life
Meaning that not only did he throw a chair in a fit of rage but he did it with the smug air of dis-honesty.
Honestly, people.
I am becoming gerund, destroyer of verbs.
The claim does not refer to the chair in question, nor throwing it.
Any grammatical or spelling errors above are for comic effect, and do not signify imperfection in the writer.
I'm sorry ... but MS has burned us all so many times that no matter what they say, I will never trust them again. I also don't like their attitude and the attitude of their staff (one of their reps described a tech support policy I find abominable, I said I'd never do business with their employer, the rep snottily said 'okay, remove all MS software from your computer', I responded that I long since quit using their crap and that I'm a Mac user... never got a reply. How predictable).
They ignore antitrust rules (most recently, Microsoft Pulls Its Head Out), they make software that ignores standards (IE), they assume their customers are thieves and demand all kinds of crap from us to prove we aren't when no other major OS vendor does that, and they are a convicted abusive monopolist and should have been broken up but are still operating.
Sorry, Ballmer. Sorry, Bill. You lost me a long time ago. You had lots of chances, and that time is way past over. You dug your own hole. Rot in it.
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No, He is wrong.
Just go to google and search for: cure for cancer
Microsoft is in it deep now.
Google IS working to cure cancer after all.
I suppose this means the "OpenOffice over the web" and other rumors are true as well.
Headline from 2020: "Google buys nearly bankrupt Microsoft"
"We did it mainly to put them out of their misery" says Google CEO...
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How can I trust an OS that doesn't trust me?
Vista doesn't trust my monitor enough to stream my glorious Blu-ray DVD to the screen... so how can I trust Vista?
Here's the proof
http://toolbar.google.com/dc/offerdc.html
"Google cures cancer"
MSN is the number one IM client for young people here, and through most of Europe. MSN here is both a noun - "Give me your MSN" and somewhat less frequently a verb - "I will MSN you"
But it refers to the IM service. Almost nobody I know uses the web site for anything productive.
"Its a trick! Get an axe."
"I am not a crook." -- Richard Nixon
MicroSoft shareholders (the owners -- including Billy Gates) don't care if Ballmer throws chairs. I just want that stock price, up up UP!!!! UP !!! UP!!!
I don't care going google, froogle, joogle or shitoogle. I just want the stock price up.
Clearly the chair story is driving him nuts, or he'd have ignored it, the way he should have.
http://www.thebricktestament.com/the_law/when_to_
C'mon how hard would it be for google. Basically, they take the human genome, index it, then search for unusual areas in the genome to find interesting treatment options. Doesn't seem that hard.
Mod Wisely.
then Microsoft will copy it in an inferior way, that doesn't work as well, and claimed to have invented it themselves.
Laughing my ass off... After all the screaming and yelling and spin-doctoring that guy has done over the last 25 years, it's pretty tough to believe anything out of his mouth today.
Personally, I believe the chair took a beating. How he justifies the statement that he didn't throw it... well.. he's been able to rationalize far greater lies in the past. The give-away: He used the word "honestly". Puh-leeeeze.
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That would be so damn cool if this wasn't added at the end of the page.
Thank you for your interest in Google Compute. The latest versions of the Google Toolbar do not support the Google Compute feature. If you would like to support the Folding@home project, please download the official Folding@home client.
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then I guess Bill Clinton didn't have sex with Monica either.
After all, the Chair-man was supposed to be Bill Gates!
Microsofts innovative attempts to innovate the uninnovated industry will surely reinnovate innovators.
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I wonder how much money microsoft has spent researching the effects of constantly using the word innovate in everything they say.
I mean just a quick
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/06/18492
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/09/13
If you read the papers today, other than curing cancer, Google will do everything
SHHH!!! don't give Google any ideas!!
The software maker will compete 'the good old-fashioned way, with innovation,' he said
innovation? since when has microsoft ever innovated? perhaps he meant "assimilation"?
Well, for me, it's nowadays just because I've always used Google. Why I did start using it, though, was, basically, the simplicity.
:>
MSN and Yahoo and what big search engines there are out there are portals. When you go to Google.com, the search is everything. MSN, Yahoo, the search isn't the main thing, it's just located in some small corner of the site. I've never paid much attention to it, but for my subconscious mind this gave the impression that the results aren't as good. While MSN and Yahoo have searches, for them it's just one thing among others. For Google it's the one and only thing they focus on, so it's prolly better.
And now I'm so used to using Google that I'm not going to change. But I think that's why I chose Google in the first place. So it's got something to do with Google being an information company, but in a different sense
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"I'm going to trust Vista on day one," Ballmer said. "I bet most people in this audience will trust it day one--on their home computer," he joked. "I'm trying to be honest among friends."
Sure he'll trust it. He profits from it. I just can't believe anyone would fall for this line of B.S.
Yeah, like he's one of our friends. And the worst part is, TONS of people actually DO fall for this B.S. There are too many sheep on this planet.
Blah! Okay, I'm done ranting now.
TWW
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
Ballmer speaks: If you read the papers today, other than curing cancer, Google will do everything.
Sounds like sour grapes to me. At one time, wasn't it Microsoft that was erupting press releases with similar claims? (Doing everything - not necessarily curing cancer) And by doing so, creating FUD and shutting down/forcing out all those other companies?
Gates and Ballmer continue to display this obvious inferiority complex when it comes to Google. They are extremely jealous of what they like to call Google's "honeymoon phase", as if Google's popularity is about infatuation rather than technical excellence, respect for users, and price.
They'll probably start donating a bunch of cash to cancer research. I truely wouldn't be surprised if they did it, too.
Though I can't see them setting up "caancer.google.com".
Mr. Ballmer didn't ask Mr. Lee for an apology or a public retraction.
and they're going to make an OS that doesn't crash
and a secure web browser
and all the other stuff they promised us...
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"I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life,"
What he means is that he hired someone else to throw the chair for him.... You don't actually believe someone as rich as he is does any manual labor??
"The software maker will compete 'the good old-fashioned way, with innovation,' he said"
It's good to know that Microsoft is willing to try new things.
The race isn't always to the swift... but that's the way to bet!
The software maker will compete 'the good old-fashioned way, with innovation,'
And when, exactly, does Ballmer and co plan on starting this new business practice of comming up with their own ideas?
To them I say GOOD DAY. MS lost my respect, and all possibilities of earning my money, years ago.
...Or at least trying to. Google compute helps folding@home out, which does some work in cancer research.
I can see it now, a home movie of five-year-old Ballmer hurling a plastic kiddie chair at the wall...
The funny thing is, you're partially correct.
Anyone remember this?
http://toolbar.google.com/dc/faq_dc.html
I don't use MSN because my sites are invariably ranked higher in Google. Which means that Google is smarter. Because I am that cool.
What Ballmer meant to say is that he has never personally thrown a chair. I mean come on, do you expect him to be able to throw a solid gold chair? Now that doesn't mean his minions weren't ordered to throw the chair.
Plausible deniability.
can't sleep slashdot will eat me
Won't someone think of the pigeons! http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html
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There are far too many similarities to ignore .
.. (They also both look like near hairless Gorillas )
Banner Vs Ballmer , they both get mad , turn a funny colour and start throwing things around
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
But the ARE curing cancer! Just look:
http://toolbar.google.com/dc/offerdc.html
Ok, so they don't list cancer specifically, but I'm sure it's helping!
And I respond with, "Please don't." (:
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Innovation and Micro$oft don't go together.
Hate to break it to ya Steve old boy, but Google is curing cancer. The Google Toolbar includes Google Compute, which contributes unused CPU cycles to Folding@home, the Stanford research project on protein folding. Potential payoffs of the research include curing some types of cancer.
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Watching Ballmer in action really is like watching an old pro toggle up yet again for some feisty action with the pesky "competition". Others have long retired from the ring but, as the saying goes, this guy would cross the street if he thought there was a chance of getting into a good brawl.
I guess, though, that you can battle some of the people some of the time and win. But if you battle all of the people all the time you will lose. At the moment, Microsoft seems to be in the second mode. Hardly a day goes by without them announcing some initiative involving their "innovation pipeline" (whatever that is) which means crushing competition in some far-flung province of the empire. Good old Ballmero, he'll still be fighting as they carry him into the Open Sauce Memorial Cemetery and he'll probably still be struggling as he reaches six foot under. I guess at least it will be possible to set a pin on the headstone using Google Earth.
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Have you ever noticed that Google has a better indexing of www.microsoft.com and can find Microsoft articles better then MS's own built in site search? Check it out sometime: vbscript : www.microsoft.com
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I don't know about that, they might work at finding a cure for cancer. They already have the Google Compute project working on protiens.
"I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life."
-- Steve Ballmer
I just added this to my quote file, and I'd like to humbly suggest that it'd make a great QOTD for Slashdot. (Taco?)
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There are three posibility explaining why you wrote this sentence:
You mispelled flawed.
Or, you spelled it right and are just really high. Really, really high.
Or, maybe....hey everybody it's Bill! Bill, this is Slashdot, Slashdot this is Bill Gates.
Anyone who whines about being modded down should be.
Steve: Whats over there? ...Ooookay... Now what?
Me: It'a a credenza
Steve: What's it doing?
Me: Nothing, it's a credenza.
Steve: I watch it, what's it do?
Me: Nothing It's a credenza
Steve: I grab it and throw it in the hallway.
Me:
Steve:Does it do anything?
Me: No IT'S a credenza!
Steve: I kung-Fu it's ass!
Me: Like a chair?
Steve: Hell Yeah like a chair! Except I'm going to fucking kill it! You HEAR ME credenza! I'm going to FUCKING KILL you!!!!
or maybe I'm confusing that with another story.
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Yet again Steve Ballmer thinks he knows everything. Sometimes I wonder if Steve Ballmer trusts that the cook at the sushi bar he hangs out at in Seattle doesn't spit in his food, especially after he tried to win over (and failed miserably) at trying to convince the Far East to join Microsoft's evil empire. I especially like the part where the former Nintendo CEO told Steve to [--something I won't say here because someone at Slashdot might not approve--] to which the Western Media manipulated it into a hoax. Right....
It seems like every where Steve Ballmer goes, he ticks somone off or he gets ticked off to which the party that he is tick off at gets more ticked off at him. Now this new story comes along where Ballmer is throwing chairs like he's Bobby Knight.
Ballmer needs to get a clue that the clock is at fourteen minutes and fifty-nine seconds for Microsoft and his carreer.
The Rapture is NOT an exit strategy.
Ninja skills... aye, that would explain his hatred of us pirate folk!
Arrrh, matey, let's keel haul the blaggard! Just see that ye' be lookin' sharp. A chair through the head be not the sort of wooden leg befitting our kind. Y'arrrrh.
Is there any evidence, besides the obvious, that Ballmer is a major cocaine addict...
Certainly would explain some things!
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I keep waiting for someone to make a remake of Donkey Kong, but with Ballmer throwing chairs instead of barrels and doing the "Developers!" dance. Has anyone yet seen any spoof games like this? :)
'I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life,'
You've never done ANYTHING honestly in your life, Steve.
Can you say the words "lying sack of shit"?
I knew you could.
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Personally I think Balmer is an idiot. Bill Gates should take over again then maybe Google wouldn't have the right to think Microsoft is BS. I'm on Google's side now - I always take the smaller side as they tend to have more care about things, that is, until they become the big company then I will go with the next.
Vista doesn't trust YOU!
"4) How about (re?)designing Windows so that the entire "Documents and Settings" folder can be copied, thus retaining all Outlook/Outlook express settings and data without having to do stupid import stuff? It's way retarded that you can't just copy over the "Documents and Settings" folder and have *any* confidence of having effectively grabbed all the users' data..
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Right-click: My Computer-->Properties
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Button: Copy to...
Pick a destination.
That word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Ballmer said Microsoft needs to continue to invest in research and development to deal with open-source software, Google, IBM and other competitors
He sure likes to challenge the impossible, when will he learn OSS is not a business you cant make it go bankrrupt, when he faces the fact it will always exisit the better and _deal_ with it a bit more positivily and fairly you might actually find OSS developers actually using ms applications instead of trying to debunk it.
Google #1 in folding@home, basically..
The software maker will compete 'the good old-fashioned way, with innovation,'
[Place disclaimer of forward-looking statements here.]
The software maker will compete 'the good old-fashioned way, with innovation,' he said.
Innovation?!
That's not the 'good old-fashioned way' of Microsoft that we all know and love!
This type of thing (which occurred just the other day) is the 'old-fashioned' way:
"Microsoft Corp., already under government scrutiny over its behavior toward competitors, told manufacturers of iPod-like portable audio devices that under a new marketing program they would not be allowed to distribute rivals' music player software but pulled back after one company protested." - [more]
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As a former user of CP/M, CP/M-86, even the UCSD p-system that came out for the PC, I can say: CP/M was a drop in the bucket.
Yeah, a few people brought up databases on it. dBase did start out on it, and CP/M was starting to perhaps make a name for itself, but MS-DOS quickly overtook it, and (later) IBM PCs wiped it right off the map.
The Apple ][ had a much bigger impact on computing in business than CP/M did. Honestly, I think you could say Apple did more actual work to make the microcomputer revolution happen than IBM did. Apple took a chance and positioned computers for business before anyone thought it could happen. IBM did do a good job on their PC (relatively), but largely it took off because "no one every got fired for buying IBM". They were smart to jump in, but they didn't really start the revolution.
Things might have been different if hard drives were affordably available (or even close) and easy to attach back when CP/M was making its way. But they weren't, and by the time they were big in the market (enabling a lot more databasing) the MS-DOS had solidly beat out CP/M and CP/M-86 and PCs and PC clones had already almost wiped non-PC-based MS-DOS machines too.
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Nah, it was a desk!
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...Were going to die of avian flu first! Google Flu anyone? Or why not just a miracle cure all?
You mean Microsoft and Google are having an e-penis fight?
Papers: "Google will do everything!"
Balmer: "Microsoft will do more!"
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
until it's been officially denied.
"'I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life,' Microsoft's CEO said , "ALL of my chairs have been thrown dishonestly."
I wish he gave this comment when asked the question about Microsoft.. http://www.ebaumsworld.com/ballmerwindows.html
And that is a large part of the reason why Google's corporate motto is, "Do no evil." They recognize the importance of people's trust to their business, and they try to maintain it.
As you say, Microsoft has not earned people's trust: breaking antitrust laws, spreading FUD, trying to bury any companies that get in their way, etc. I certainly wouldn't trust their search results.