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Google's OS Model Borders on the Brilliant

Saying that Google is and advertising company is missing the point of your analysis. Sure they make most of their profits from their search advertising model, but none of their success would be possible without their technology. They are young and disperse, and so is the internet and all the little apps we use to make our lives more comfortable and entertaining. I want my computers to last at least 2 years keeping the same performance, I hate searching using pirate software, but I don’t want to invest a dime on it if I know that the next OS from Microfts is going to wipe it away. If Google can promise me that, I can change my barin to stop using outlook, power point and excel.


On Jul 09 11:05 AM PaulN wrote:

> Guys you have to remember that this is all a Media game. Google is
> good at using their 'adolescent and brash image' (which is hardly
> the case if you knew how ruthless they are on the inside) to wow
> the media. This is all just a back-and-forth tit-for-tat with Microsoft
> because Microsoft just threw a major salvo at Google with their Bing
> service, which is arguably a better experience on many fronts. Google
> pre-announcing something 18 months before it's due? That is actually
> not that common for them. So why would they do it?
>
> They are just trying to throw FUD around Windows 7. They're actually
> running scared right now -- they see 2 major innovations coming out
> of Microsoft and they know they're under the gun. While they have
> the 'adolescent' cachet, they're using it to hurl rocks at their
> rival. And their playbook is getting so tired: 'we are open, we are
> using linux, we are using open source, we can do it better' ... as
> the other bloggers state, none of that has materialized into anything
> formidable yet.
>
> My suggestion is for both companies to stick to their knitting. Google
> is an advertising company. Microsoft is a technology company. Why
> either one is so keen to enter the other's space is beyond me, other
> than to burn $Bs and untold mega tons of carbon to just replicate
> what the other has done. It's pretty sad, actually, if you back up
> and look at these two companies from a cosmic and universal level.
> Such is capitalism, though, they're going to fight for the last dollar
> at any cost.
>
> We'll eventually forget about this paper announcement like almost
> everything else google does, especially as Microsoft captures more
> search market share.