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"Apple's and Microsoft's business transactions(except for Bing) are upfront. You pay us this much money and you get this service. Google's is a more subtle "use

by blocke 13y ago

"Apple's and Microsoft's business transactions(except for Bing) are upfront. You pay us this much money and you get this service. Google's is a more subtle "use this free service and we'll track your behavior and try to profit off it, if not we'll kill it"." Because upgrades, support incidents, and software assurance are free, and they will give me the manpower to run it all? Where do I sign up? :)

WayneDB 13y ago
I work with many companies that are still happily running on a 13 year old Windows OS. They don't pay Microsoft for upgrades, support incidents or software assurance because all of that is optional. With Google, you will always be the product - and you have no choice in that matter.
- rbanffy 13y ago
  I hope they also keep their computers away from the internet.
  - WayneDB 13y ago
    They don't. Did you know that Android is more susceptible to malware than XP is though? There are ways to protect business computers from the Big Bad Internet too. Can you think of any? I certainly can...