__/ [ Who Turned Off The Lights? ] on Wednesday 08 March 2006 05:43 \__
> On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 05:23:29 GMT, Big Bill wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 02:00:04 GMT, Who Turned Off The Lights?
>> <Lights@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:44:17 -0600, Paul B wrote:
>>>
>>>> From : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4782108.stm
>>>>
>>>> Web giant Google is planning a massive online storage facility to
>>>> encompass all users' files, it is reported.
>>>
>>>[...]
>>>
>>>hehe, and while I'm at it I think I'll let my neighbors hold onto my
>>>credit card statements.
>>>
>>>> The plans were allegedly revealed accidentally after a blogger spotted
>>>> notes in a slideshow presentation wrongly published on Google's site.
>>
>> which inspires confidence no end.
>
> Reminds me of that secret 'Gates Memo' not that long ago.
Which one of them? There are several. *This* perhaps?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051109/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_gates_memo
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| SEATTLE - The technology industry shift's to Internet-based
| software and services represents a massive and disruptive
| "sea change," Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates wrote to top-level
| executives in a memo aimed at rallying his troops against the
| new competitive threats the company faces.
|
| Gates compares the push toward such services ? which range
| from online business software offerings to free Web-based e-mail
| - to the changes he saw nearly a decade ago. Then, he wrote a
| now-famous memo, called "The Internet Tidal Wave," the (sic.)
| prompted a massive shift at Microsoft toward Internet-based
| technology.
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