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If Microsoft goes Google

41 points by pbetnah 16y ago

px 16y ago
My favorite is: "At Microsoft, if 10 team members working on a project each make 5 revisions there would be 50 versions of the same document floating around. Yikes."
- nhebb 16y ago
  Apparently they never heard of the built-in revision tracking in Office documents, and it completely ignores SharePoint. Google is sinking to Microsoft's level. This is as shameful and FUD-filled as the "Internet Explorer 8 - safer, faster, easier" message I see when browsing MSDN with Firefox.
  - varaon 16y ago
    At least it's more secure than a potato.
    - rroy1590 16y ago
      ahahaha +1
arch_hunter 16y ago
If Microsoft ever does 'Go Google' I'll eat my hat: That would be like Bluto deciding to eat spinach to gain Popeye's strength, it just won't happen.
rroy1590 16y ago
microsoft can already do all of this internally using the new Office 2010, office online apps and sharepoint.
- fname 16y ago
  Yup, now if they can sell those features to their customers...
jf 16y ago
For what it's worth, most of the numbers for Microsoft in the "assumptions" are wrong - I wonder if it's possible to have a set of assumptions such that this application wouldn't recommend a move to Google Apps? What I found the most interesting however is that it's not possible to set some of the numbers in the assumptions below certain thresholds. For example, in the "unplanned downtime" section you're required to put in a number greater than 15 minutes.
raganwald 16y ago
rf;dr (requires flash, didn't read... on my iPad)
- spicyj 16y ago
  PDF summary: http://www.gonegoogle.com/poster-report/90c6d40a87ea45a7a5c53fc68cb37929 http://www.gonegoogle.com/poster-report/90c6d40a87ea45a7a5c5...
anthonyb 16y ago
Of course, it does make it much harder to delete emails; that'll probably cost a pretty penny when the US DOJ next comes knocking...
jerf 16y ago
Well, if Google switches to Google, they can save up to 50-70% on their enterprise email costs. Presumably they can then do this again, until they are paying a vanishing fraction of a penny on emails costs. No wonder GMail turns a profit. In other news, the blinding geniuses at Google, whose shoes you are not fit to shine, recently announced a compression algorithm that uses MapReduce on BigTable running in The Cloud (TM) based on Node.js async javascript running on top of Chrome's V8 running in mobile data centers powered by renewable energy that can compress any data by at least one bit by harnessing the mighty power of buzzwords. Google is preparing a presentation in which they will shortly announce that they will be putting up a torrent containing every file on the internet using this technology.
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- vinutheraj 16y ago
  Google is preparing a presentation in which they will shortly announce that they will be putting up a torrent containing every file on the internet using this technology. That last bit was really good :)
alain94040 16y ago
Employees at Microsoft will be 2.8 times more productive when mobile Except when they don't have an Internet connection, in which case they are 100% less productive! Microsoft could add 612,500 GB of email space Does anyone have any evidence that e-mail storage on Outlook is an issue? Since the e-mail may be stored locally and hard drives are infinite capacity (compared to the the 2GB allocation of Gmail), this sounds like a bogus argument. there's a single version of the doc so everyone knows they are working on the latest version Yeah, right. Works great until you need to really modify a document locally, because you are experimenting with major changes. Good luck merging it back with either platform. Microsoft may spend as much as $3,750,000 in data recovery services to protect from natural disaster. By going Google you'd spend $0 and wait 0 weeks Does anyone who is in charge of mission critical stuff advises to trust Google storage and not perform any extra backups? Really? I love watching how Google slowly but surely loses all the goodwill they accumulated, in their quest to become just another $10B company. Business as usual.
blocke 16y ago
Guys? Are you intentionally being stupid? http://www.gonegoogle.com/ http://www.gonegoogle.com/ and enter in the name of any company you want... It's a generic advertisement, not something specifically targeting Microsoft. Also, this article is a duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1395521 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1395521
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41 points by pbetnah 16y ago

px 16y ago

My favorite is: "At Microsoft, if 10 team members working on a project each make 5 revisions there would be 50 versions of the same document floating around. Yikes."

nhebb 16y ago
Apparently they never heard of the built-in revision tracking in Office documents, and it completely ignores SharePoint. Google is sinking to Microsoft's level. This is as shameful and FUD-filled as the "Internet Explorer 8 - safer, faster, easier" message I see when browsing MSDN with Firefox.
- varaon 16y ago
  At least it's more secure than a potato.
  - rroy1590 16y ago
    ahahaha +1

arch_hunter 16y ago

If Microsoft ever does 'Go Google' I'll eat my hat: That would be like Bluto deciding to eat spinach to gain Popeye's strength, it just won't happen.

rroy1590 16y ago

microsoft can already do all of this internally using the new Office 2010, office online apps and sharepoint.

fname 16y ago
Yup, now if they can sell those features to their customers...

jf 16y ago

For what it's worth, most of the numbers for Microsoft in the "assumptions" are wrong - I wonder if it's possible to have a set of assumptions such that this application wouldn't recommend a move to Google Apps? What I found the most interesting however is that it's not possible to set some of the numbers in the assumptions below certain thresholds. For example, in the "unplanned downtime" section you're required to put in a number greater than 15 minutes.

raganwald 16y ago

rf;dr (requires flash, didn't read... on my iPad)

spicyj 16y ago
PDF summary: http://www.gonegoogle.com/poster-report/90c6d40a87ea45a7a5c53fc68cb37929 http://www.gonegoogle.com/poster-report/90c6d40a87ea45a7a5c5...

anthonyb 16y ago

Of course, it does make it much harder to delete emails; that'll probably cost a pretty penny when the US DOJ next comes knocking...

jerf 16y ago

Well, if Google switches to Google, they can save up to 50-70% on their enterprise email costs. Presumably they can then do this again, until they are paying a vanishing fraction of a penny on emails costs. No wonder GMail turns a profit. In other news, the blinding geniuses at Google, whose shoes you are not fit to shine, recently announced a compression algorithm that uses MapReduce on BigTable running in The Cloud (TM) based on Node.js async javascript running on top of Chrome's V8 running in mobile data centers powered by renewable energy that can compress any data by at least one bit by harnessing the mighty power of buzzwords. Google is preparing a presentation in which they will shortly announce that they will be putting up a torrent containing every file on the internet using this technology.

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vinutheraj 16y ago
Google is preparing a presentation in which they will shortly announce that they will be putting up a torrent containing every file on the internet using this technology. That last bit was really good :)

alain94040 16y ago

Employees at Microsoft will be 2.8 times more productive when mobile Except when they don't have an Internet connection, in which case they are 100% less productive! Microsoft could add 612,500 GB of email space Does anyone have any evidence that e-mail storage on Outlook is an issue? Since the e-mail may be stored locally and hard drives are infinite capacity (compared to the the 2GB allocation of Gmail), this sounds like a bogus argument. there's a single version of the doc so everyone knows they are working on the latest version Yeah, right. Works great until you need to really modify a document locally, because you are experimenting with major changes. Good luck merging it back with either platform. Microsoft may spend as much as $3,750,000 in data recovery services to protect from natural disaster. By going Google you'd spend $0 and wait 0 weeks Does anyone who is in charge of mission critical stuff advises to trust Google storage and not perform any extra backups? Really? I love watching how Google slowly but surely loses all the goodwill they accumulated, in their quest to become just another $10B company. Business as usual.

blocke 16y ago

Guys? Are you intentionally being stupid? http://www.gonegoogle.com/ http://www.gonegoogle.com/ and enter in the name of any company you want... It's a generic advertisement, not something specifically targeting Microsoft. Also, this article is a duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1395521 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1395521

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