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How odd the mixed metaphors sound... "built from the ground up to work in the cloud"...

The dinosaurs were around for tens of millions of years, and we mammals can barely say the same. The crown of creation can be wrested from the head of the wearer by something unforeseen--like a planet-wide asteroid/comet impact.

Just as Google eats its own dog food, so does Microsoft, and they've been doing it longer. The competition between these two behemoths is quite interesting to watch, and impossible (for me, at least) to predict the outcome.

Frankly, I hope both companies come out of the rise of the cloud strong and vital. I'd hate to see one monolithic model of computing take the field. Different emphases can serve slightly different demographics and markets, and we benefit from their continued competition. The need for multi-lingual education is becoming more apparent every day; why should it be any different in dealing with computation resources? Give me familiarity with multiple platforms any day; just keep the "religious fundamentalists" (in the sense of the best platform of choice) and their fanboys away from me.
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Random comments...  dbarr@... | 11/02/09
I preferred ...  johnfenjackson@... | 11/02/09
Ideation is retarded in established companies  HollywoodDog | 11/02/09
neither of these companies are in as much competition as people think...  shadfurman | 11/02/09
actually...  Linux Geek | 11/02/09
Actually Part Deux  betelgeuse68 | 11/02/09
LOL - nt  USTechHead | 11/02/09
I guess you never noticed the number of builds...  zkiwi | 11/02/09
No I hadn't noticed  betelgeuse68 | 11/02/09
I went ahead and put linux on my recovery partition  shadfurman | 11/02/09
"Tune" the Linux kernel?  Ole Man | 11/02/09
Singing a different tuning  Yagotta B. Kidding | 11/02/09
Well, it does allow you a whole lot more tinkerability than is usual...  zkiwi | 11/02/09
Google & Microsoft are the same  lehnerus2000 | 11/02/09
The world is going to end  betelgeuse68 | 11/02/09
That is EASY. We are headed to web applications and web desktops and remote  DonnieBoy | 11/02/09
Not really.  GuidingLight | 11/02/09
Actually...  Qbt | 11/02/09
Actually, the problem is funneling our computing experience through legacy  DonnieBoy | 11/02/09
Actually...  IT_User | 11/02/09
Results? How about THEM results...!!!???  Qbt | 11/02/09
Actually, as technology improves, the difference in functionality and speed  DonnieBoy | 11/02/09
I guess what you're saying is literally true  IT_User | 11/02/09
Back to the 90's? I don't think so...  Qbt | 11/02/09
No forward to the next millennium. Why limit your computing experience to  DonnieBoy | 11/02/09
Not sure how limiting yourself to a browser is "forward" progress  Qbt | 11/02/09
Not limited to a browser, and DEFINITELY NOT saddled with a legacy OS.  DonnieBoy | 11/02/09
Yea let me know how that works out for you...  Qbt | 11/02/09
A legacy OS like Linux?  GuidingLight | 11/02/09
Back to the 90's? I don't think so...  IT_User | 11/02/09
Just like people said that we could NEVER depend on the electric grid, and  DonnieBoy | 11/02/09
Who ever said that  GuidingLight | 11/02/09
Actually, almost all companies depend on electricity to make money, BUT,  DonnieBoy | 11/02/09
Actually, businesses said that  IT_User | 11/02/09
Thanks! You said it better than I did and gave a better history.  DonnieBoy | 11/02/09
I can see local caching backup servers, much like local backup generators  DonnieBoy | 11/02/09
My post said nothing of the sort  GuidingLight | 11/02/09
Actually, very few companies have backup generators. the electric grid is  DonnieBoy | 11/02/09
Really? Is that so?  GuidingLight | 11/02/09
Where is this information from?  crazydanr@... | 11/02/09
I guess my company's critical then...  wolf_z | 11/02/09
Let's see, slowly from the top  IT_User | 11/02/09
I..will..type..slowly..so ..that..you..can..follow  GuidingLight | 11/02/09
Well . . .  CobraA1 | 11/02/09
Is the desktop dead?  NStalnecker | 11/02/09
Yep, just like the people that said that they would always have a generator  DonnieBoy | 11/02/09
Nothing will change for years  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/02/09
Yep, just like GM said, people will buy V8 SUVs for YEARS and YEARS, and,  DonnieBoy | 11/02/09
Really? can you show me where they said that?  GuidingLight | 11/02/09
Actually it has worked  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/02/09
Maybe neither of them will win  otaddy | 11/02/09
Microsoft and Google are dinosaurs  Professor8 | 11/02/09
Disrupt the browser! Disrupt the browser! Disrupt the browser!  P. Douglas | 11/02/09
RE: Is Microsoft a dinosaur to Google's mammal?  zoldello@... | 11/02/09
implementation  lachgil | 11/02/09
Return to Mainframes and socialism.  jgwinner | 11/02/09
You're missing the point...  prof123 | 11/02/09
Lets not count Apple out! They have some core competency here.  raycote | 11/02/09
Speaking of dinosaurs...  ITSamurai | 11/02/09
replace vs complement  CobraA1 | 11/02/09
RE: Is Microsoft a dinosaur to Google's mammal?  PatKelly | 11/03/09
Mainframes have been dead for a long time too, isn't it?  christian.verstraete@... | 11/03/09
RE: begging the question  rahbm | 11/09/09
RE: Is Microsoft a dinosaur to Google's mammal? *NEW*  hwr | 11/20/09

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