Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> __/ [ John Bokma ] on Friday 16 June 2006 02:51 \__
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>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> In other non-related news, Bill Gates is set to retire. The current
>>> CEO was said to need a replacement, so the future looks
>>> uninterrupted for Google. Unless Yahoo can pull something off...
>>
>> Uhm, Gates retires, the man who is responsible for every bug in XP?
>>
>> *cough*
>>
>> I wonder if a MS without Gates is that good.
>
>
> Joel Spolsky puts it:
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Ozzie is smart but not in the same class as Bill Gates. And it's
>| really Ballmer that needs to go.
> `----
>
> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/15.html
OTOH, it's good that someone as Ballmer hangs around, it makes the other
MS people hopefully think a bit :-D.
>> Also, I wonder if a Google replacing MS is a good thing.
>
> I am not sure either, but standards will at least prevail more widely.
What standards? W3C hasn't published a single standard. While MS has a
part of .NET as an ECMA standard.
Talking about w3c, ever had a look at the crap Google spits out?
Google makes up their own "standards" remember the wonderful "nofollow"
invention...
> There will be choice (on the desktop).
The Google desktop you mean?
> They will need to interoperate
> (play nice) with other Web services though.
>
>
>> "Don't be evil", I mean, why does a company need to say that?
>
> It's Brin's way of saying "we are not like Microsoft. If you don't
> like Microsoft, stick with us". This appeals to a large audience,
> so...
A large clueless audience and the typical fanboy crowd, sure. Google is
just the new Microsoft, if Microsoft lets them, which I doubt.
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