Text 7258, 79 rader
Skriven 2005-09-25 08:39:32 av Mike '/m' (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 7257 av Ellen K. (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Can Microsoft pull one more rabbit out of its hat?
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From: Mike '/m' <mike@barkto.com>


What is particularly interesting is that Google is building up its market- and
mind-share without the need to force PC makers into illegal per-processor
licensing.

 /m


On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 01:30:20 -0700, Ellen K. <72322.1016@compuserve.com> wrote:

>The guys that started it are moving up the Forbes 400 faster than Gates
>did at the same point in Microsoft's history.
>
>On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 20:34:08 -0400, Mike '/m' <mike@barkto.com> wrote in
>message <lf79j1p5l1ntsi3kfl85d4g1qm2lavsssb@4ax.com>:
>
>>
>>http://news.com.com/Can+Microsoft+pull+one+more+rabbit+out+of+its+hat/2010-10
16_3-5876985.html?tag=nefd.ac
>>===
>>...  there are now lots of alternative ways to access the Web besides a
>>Windows-based PC. That spells trouble for Microsoft's monopoly
>>franchise, which depends on maintaining the status quo.
>>
>>Try imagining a future where developers will write to Web platforms
>>without thinking about an individual computer or operating system. That
>>once was Netscape's dream. If this does come to pass, Google could build
>>an ecosystem around itself in much the same way Microsoft did with
>>Windows. If Microsoft's latest moves can't clear out its corporate
>>arteries, the future could be all Google, all the time....
>>===
>>
>>
>>
>>http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,68920,00.html
>>===
>>Online search leader Google is preparing to launch a wireless internet
>>service, Google WiFi, according to several pages found on the company's
>>website Tuesday.
>>
>>A Wi-Fi service, which offers a high-speed connection to the internet,
>>would take Google even further from its search roots and move it into
>>the fiercely competitive world of internet access providers and
>>telecommunications companies....
>>===
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050825.html
>>===
>>...Google likes being a mystery, too. They are famously paranoid, sure,
>>but they'd be a lot less paranoid if it didn't make them famous. Google,
>>like Microsoft, is a brand built at least partially on envy, which you
>>know is a sin. But at Google, at least, they seem to get a lot of
>>pleasure from that sin.
>>
>>So are they really buying-up all the dark fiber in an effort to build
>>their own Internet? Are they really going to build a data center in
>>Oregon that uses so much power it needs to be next to a hydroelectric
>>dam? Who knows? Who cares? Google needs ever more bandwidth, sure, so
>>dark fiber makes sense to buy when it is probably as cheap as it is ever
>>going to get. And those 30 acres on the Columbia River don't ever have
>>to become anything since they've already paid for themselves by driving
>>Microsoft and the others a little crazy with wondering....
>>===
>>
>>
>>
>>Google's building a web-services server near a source of cheap power,
>>and building out the network to access it.  Where does that leave clunky
>>ole Windows?
>>
>>  /m

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