My problem was that I have an ASUS laptop, and it has Chinese, and Japansese languages installed by default.
After spending half a day removing these, as they could only be done one at a time, I was able to update.
The irony is that their own development software (Expression Web) creates files that do not work in IE7. They could scrap IE and build a browser off Expression Web, and have something that actually worked.
It is also like the Chat-Pad for the Xbox360, which has orange and green shift keys for extra characters.
Heck, even my laptop has an Fn key that brings up extended characters.
You've actually answered your own question. Google don't need Facebook, any solid Google watcher knows that they've been going the social with a lot of their apps - and they're much better at it than MS.
If I email on Gmail through my Gmail, and they reply, we are assumed 'friends' and they're added to my contacts list. Now they show up in my GTalk, and whenever I try and share something etc etc...
If they dropped a facebook skin around that tomorrow, they'd already have a huge social network in place - or, perhaps they could just attach Orkut.
The interesting thing about AIM is it's very US centric, the rest of the world seems to have used MSN although like you, most people I know are moving to Gmail.
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My problem was that I have an ASUS laptop, and it has Chinese, and Japansese languages installed by default. After spending half a day removing these, as they could only be done one at a time, I was able to update.
The irony is that their own development software (Expression Web) creates files that do not work in IE7. They could scrap IE and build a browser off Expression Web, and have something that actually worked.
It is also like the Chat-Pad for the Xbox360, which has orange and green shift keys for extra characters. Heck, even my laptop has an Fn key that brings up extended characters.
You've actually answered your own question. Google don't need Facebook, any solid Google watcher knows that they've been going the social with a lot of their apps - and they're much better at it than MS. If I email on Gmail through my Gmail, and they reply, we are assumed 'friends' and they're added to my contacts list. Now they show up in my GTalk, and whenever I try and share something etc etc... If they dropped a facebook skin around that tomorrow, they'd already have a huge social network in place - or, perhaps they could just attach Orkut. The interesting thing about AIM is it's very US centric, the rest of the world seems to have used MSN although like you, most people I know are moving to Gmail.
Does it symbolise God talking out of his ass?