As an engineering student on his way to getting my license, I wholeheartedly agree. The IT personel in my company know what they are doing enough to keep the network rolling, but have in the past made extremely simple mistakes that my 13 year old cousin knows not to, ie mistaking a "net send" message from one user to another as a virus, and shutting down the system for a day to "ensure security".
imho, the main difference between bugs in google's current software and microsoft's is the fact that google keeps things in beta a lot longer, bringing the whole public in as testers instead of a "small" group like microsoft. From a gossip standpoint, googles products are more talked about, so the betas get around faster (how many people out there *cant* get a gmail account?) and we are more likely to excuse a bug than in a final release.
I might not know much, being a relatively young university student, but you cannot dismiss the long delays between beta releases and final releases in googles software, resulting in a better product overal. I do agreee with your statement about google watching what i do, as i'd much rather have unobtrusive ads geared toward things i might possibly (on some other world, some other time...) buy.
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As an engineering student on his way to getting my license, I wholeheartedly agree. The IT personel in my company know what they are doing enough to keep the network rolling, but have in the past made extremely simple mistakes that my 13 year old cousin knows not to, ie mistaking a "net send" message from one user to another as a virus, and shutting down the system for a day to "ensure security".
imho, the main difference between bugs in google's current software and microsoft's is the fact that google keeps things in beta a lot longer, bringing the whole public in as testers instead of a "small" group like microsoft. From a gossip standpoint, googles products are more talked about, so the betas get around faster (how many people out there *cant* get a gmail account?) and we are more likely to excuse a bug than in a final release. I might not know much, being a relatively young university student, but you cannot dismiss the long delays between beta releases and final releases in googles software, resulting in a better product overal. I do agreee with your statement about google watching what i do, as i'd much rather have unobtrusive ads geared toward things i might possibly (on some other world, some other time...) buy.