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How Google became Microsoft: A decade of hits, misses and gaffes
- limist 17y agoAn irreverent review of the naughts decade for IT - and some of their graphics are hilarious art/culture hacks.
- mildweed 17y agoYes, they are the new Microsoft. But one that doesn't charge you for their services. That's why we love them. And they're savvy.
- freetard 17y ago> But one that doesn't charge you for their services. Not only that, but it doesn't lock people in their proprietary office and protocols. * Tired of Gmail? export it to imap * Tired of Google Calendar? export it to ical * Tired of Google Docs? export it to open office, ms office, html or even plain text And it goes on. People use google because they make great software and stay with them for the same reason. People stay with MS because they are locked in.
- pragmatic 17y agoYou mean they turned into a big profitable company with huge market share? Yeah, I can see how that sucks for them. How many CEO's would cut off their left hand to have a company like Google? They are in the process of changing (for better or worse) the mobile/cell phone market. So big, profitable and powerful. Possibly getting evil? I don't know.
- clavalle 17y agoDoes it seem like there has been a huge uptick of anti-Google articles floating since Nexus One was introduced to anyone else?