Mod the parent up!!!
Apart from all the copyright and legal issues here would you really want photos of your family, children, and loved ones floating around on the web? There are some sick people out there and I'd be real concerned if photos of people I cared about where in the public domain.
Can you ship a complete product this time is the question? KOTOR2 was a good game but was lacking a little polish... another month in development would've gone a long way.
Hey I won't defend Microsoft's business practices but one thing Microsoft is very good at is integrating products and services. The other thing is making these products relatively easy to setup and use. These are their real strengths.
The fact that someone with no real IT experience can setup a reasonably complex network (ie. Directory services, DNS, etc etc) is a major accomplishment. Unfortunately the downside is that inexperienced people also tend to make a meal of it and you end up with some nasty lookin networks.
When everything works it works really well... it's when it doesn't work then that's where you have problems.
In this case does it really matter? Google and Microsoft are both repositioning themselves as marketers... they are both big enough to compete with one another on even terms.
I for one think that competition between the two will be a good thing... hopefully it will deliver more 'innovation' from both companies
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Mod the parent up!!! Apart from all the copyright and legal issues here would you really want photos of your family, children, and loved ones floating around on the web? There are some sick people out there and I'd be real concerned if photos of people I cared about where in the public domain.
Can you ship a complete product this time is the question? KOTOR2 was a good game but was lacking a little polish... another month in development would've gone a long way.
Hey I won't defend Microsoft's business practices but one thing Microsoft is very good at is integrating products and services. The other thing is making these products relatively easy to setup and use. These are their real strengths. The fact that someone with no real IT experience can setup a reasonably complex network (ie. Directory services, DNS, etc etc) is a major accomplishment. Unfortunately the downside is that inexperienced people also tend to make a meal of it and you end up with some nasty lookin networks. When everything works it works really well... it's when it doesn't work then that's where you have problems.
In this case does it really matter? Google and Microsoft are both repositioning themselves as marketers... they are both big enough to compete with one another on even terms. I for one think that competition between the two will be a good thing... hopefully it will deliver more 'innovation' from both companies