Text 7257, 69 rader
Skriven 2005-09-25 01:30:20 av Ellen K. (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 7242 av Mike '/m' (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Can Microsoft pull one more rabbit out of its hat?
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From: Ellen K. <72322.1016@compuserve.com>

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/2010-101
6_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
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>...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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