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Changing Climates for Microsoft and Google

Posted by Hemos on from the a-path-to-the-future dept.

ReadWriteWeb writes "Weather metaphors abound as this article looks at the evolving software environment — and in particular the competition between Microsoft and Google. Milan says that while Google enjoys relative dominance on the Web platform today, two fissures exist that will force them to move. The first is Microsoft's ability to use the exact same HTML based strategy as Google (like Microsoft's current Live initiative); and secondly Microsoft leapfrogging the current environment by solving rich application installation/un installation and enforcing an acceptable contract regarding what rich apps can do on a user's machine. Unfortunately for Google, Microsoft is a lot closer to solving these two issues than people think. Microsoft has the best virtual machine with .NET, the best development tool with Visual Studio and the best access to developers with their MSDN programs. And they have a notion. Steve Ballmer himself has started touting the exact strategy they need — Click Once and Run."

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  1. Click once and run? by stile99 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Run where? Screaming from the room? For the border?

  2. An Inconvenient Truth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    If this is true we must have a KLOC tax.

    Myself, I think the internet has a naturally occurring pattern of variability, but if it turns out the internet is indeed manmade, then a KLOC tax can mitigate the negative externality of global porning.

  3. Doesn't Steve Mean.... by zarthrag · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Click Once And Run"...Away?

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    Why can't all fpga/microcontroller manufacturers just release free optimizing compilers???
  4. Re:Visual Studio by shaneh0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    "I refuse to touch Emacs with a 39 and a half foot pole"

    Perhaps, then, my penis would be of some assistance?

  5. Upcoming patent cases: by ZiZ · · Score: 2, Funny

    Amazon vs. Microsoft for One-Click operations
    Lindows vs. Microsoft for Click and Run operations
    Pringles vs. Microsoft for Once You Pop, You Can't Stop operations

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    This flies in the face of science.
  6. Re:Again by Bob-taro · · Score: 2, Funny
    Emacs - I found a faster text editor with the same features of emacs: "wine /opt/winc/Windows/notepad.exe".
    Wow! I'm not that fluent in emacs, but for this statement to be true, I must be totally ignorant of most of Notepad's features.
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    Prov 9:8 Do not rebuke mockers or they will hate you; rebuke the wise and they will love you.