[Tams]

Bill Gates must be pissed,
this OS wrapped in the browser was his idea,
but he was forced to unbundle it years ago...

[Tams]

Originally Posted by brownsfan019 »

So far I think wherever Google has entered, they've created the best (or one of) applications/services in that area. It forces the competition to up their game and if they can't, the best product will win out.

If I was a big corporation and heard that Google was going to enter my industry, I would be scared and be pulling off whatever I could to keep my market share. And if I was an insider, I might start dumping my shares.

well... the Google Wave is in beta.

watch out Facebook

Google Wave - Communicate and collaborate in real time

[BlowFish]

Originally Posted by Tams »

Bill Gates must be pissed,
this OS wrapped in the browser was his idea,
but he was forced to unbundle it years ago...

Quite true though that was a fat OS and a fat browser. They also put quite a lot of money into Windows Terminal Server.

[ryounkin]

This is free-market capitalism at its finest. Microfuzzy holds an oligopoly on OS software. Its only serious competition to date is Apple, which arguably produces a superior product, but limits adoption by insisting on proprietary hardware. This allows MS to market crap. Having just survived a malware attack that my McAfee didn't prevent or even detact and reading about viruses that can download kiddy-porn on your computer and get you arrested, I long for a popular version of Linux that will attract developers. I would have abandoned Windoze long ago if tradestation had an Apple version.