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Ya'll are trying to hard...
...to invent the next Microsoft. You answered most of your own questions. If Google up and disappeared you'd just use the next service or the one you were using before Google came along. I tend to use Google heavily not because one product sucks me in but because I like their services. I can leave any one of them or all of them without much problem besides having to move some data in some cases.

This is not the same case as Microsoft. For instance lets say I like the interaction between Exchange and Outlook but I don't care for MS servers. Well if I want Exchange and Outlook I'm going to need an MS server and desktop. If I like MSSQL vs Oracle then I need an MS Server and a desktop to use the management tool. I may like C# but if I want to use the up to date features of the .Net platform I'm going to need Visual Studio (though I like Eclipse) and again Windows desktop. Honestly that quickly became my problem with MS. If I like just one little piece of their technology it quickly spirals into me adopting their whole stack. Or if enough people like their technology you end up being forced to use it as well just to be compatible with everyone else. Sure its a great business practice for them but I don't care to be forced into using 10 products I can't stand just to use one that I like.

You simply can't compare the two. Its far easier to leave Google than it is to get out of a MS entanglement.
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Ya'll are trying to hard...  storm14k | 02/03/09
I think you're looking at it the wrong way  Michael Kelly | 02/03/09
Still a stretch though....  storm14k | 02/03/09
Not bricked  MarkCarson | 02/04/09
Microsoft Entanglement  jwlankford@... | 02/04/09
Google is advocating open source???  xuniL_z | 02/04/09
I partially agree with one point you made.  xuniL_z | 02/04/09
Much ado  daengbo | 02/04/09
You Are Correct, Sir..  His_Shadow | 02/05/09
RE: What if there was no Google? A lesson in monoculture  ealgar | 02/03/09
Microsoft?  jwlankford@... | 02/04/09
RE: What if there was no Google? A lesson in monoculture  mjlaverty@... | 02/03/09
Opinions about Google and its products may differ,  mhenriday | 02/04/09
RE: What if there was no Google? A lesson in monoculture  Linux User 147560 | 02/03/09
RE: What if there was no Google? A lesson in monoculture  R.L. Parson | 02/03/09
Thank you for listing all the major services.  kozmcrae | 02/03/09
You have got to be kidding...  IT_Guy_z | 02/03/09
A very logical  GuidingLight | 02/03/09
Thus you have found what is so awesome about google.  T1Oracle | 02/03/09
Google competes fairly?  xuniL_z | 02/04/09
ROTFLOL!  co-eddy | 02/04/09
Pay no attention ...  daengbo | 02/04/09
pay attention  xuniL_z | 02/06/09
Dominant search  devils_advocate | 02/04/09
Yahoo & Microsoft also store search history  linuser | 02/04/09
Google swipes mail from your local outlook client if you load their desktop  xuniL_z | 02/04/09
Yahoo (Altavista)  dave@... | 02/04/09
Google who?  T-Rexx | 02/03/09
Seamless cloud services  linuser | 02/04/09
APIs  daengbo | 02/04/09
The Google Empire  jwlankford@... | 02/04/09
Are you brain dead?  Mark-Twain | 02/04/09
RE: What if there was no Google? A lesson in monoculture  gigabot71 | 02/04/09
Article a waste of time  kagnewrick@... | 02/04/09
touche!  magallanes | 02/04/09
re: Article a waste of time  pomahtuk | 02/05/09
I would use Yahoo  hiraghm@... | 02/04/09
RE: What if there was no Google? A lesson in monoculture  varick | 02/04/09
I don't use google that much.  morgan66 | 02/04/09
Comparing Google and Microsoft is misleading  rarsa | 02/04/09
Very nicely, thank you  John L. Ries | 02/04/09
RE: What if there was no Google?  shenry1307 | 02/04/09
Answers are partially relevant  rarsa | 02/04/09
RE: What if there was no Google? A lesson in monoculture  inspector3500@... | 02/04/09
You must be kidding!  Speednet | 02/04/09
I'll admit, I would die without Google (not literally), but...  Californian | 02/04/09
Don't use a single google product  jthompso@... | 02/04/09
Don't use a single google product  jthompso@... | 02/04/09
RE: What if there was no Google? A lesson in monoculture  rocketman67 | 02/04/09
No real effect  don3605 | 02/04/09
Google isn't indispensible.  gypkap@... | 02/04/09
RE: What if there was no Google? A lesson in monoculture  mswift@... | 02/04/09
RE: What if there was no Google? A lesson in monoculture  clarinette | 02/04/09
Google isn't that important  melekali | 02/04/09
RE: What if there was no Google? A lesson in monoculture  pchts | 02/04/09
wouldn't be missed.  pgit | 02/04/09
RE: What if there was no Google? A lesson in monoculture  Shuelin | 02/04/09
Google Who?  rkuhn040172@... | 02/04/09
RE: What if there was no Google? A lesson in monoculture  forzarasta | 02/04/09
RE: What if there was no Google? A lesson in monoculture  bobwinners | 02/04/09
A lesson in Monoculture?  vilppuu@... | 02/04/09
Strange question  ksarkies@... | 02/04/09
Google, Microsoft, whatever its all the same problem  ben.rattigan | 02/05/09
Much ado about nothing  cwallen19803@... | 02/05/09
RE: What if there was no Google? A lesson in monoculture  YisroelB | 02/05/09
RE: What if there was no Google? A lesson in monoculture  mlgoff_59 | 02/05/09
RE: What if there was no Google? A lesson in monoculture  arlow | 02/05/09
Google is the biggest purveyor of spyware  jorjitop | 02/09/09
RE: What if there was no Google? A lesson in monoculture  green_collar | 02/12/09
HM!  Bilmekanikeren | 02/12/09
Missing the point (SPF)  jefmud | 02/13/09
RE: What if there was no Google? A lesson in monoculture  hwr | 11/21/09

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