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On Google and Microsoft

Posted in All on August 31st, 2006 · 5 Comments

I can easily live (and work) through a day without touching anything of Microsoft. In fact, I do so for a few years now. But there’s no way I can say the same about Google. It all started with a better search engine (I used to use Yahoo and Altavista back in the days). Then it grew to some ads for my website, my email, my calendaring, log analysis for my websites, chat, and so on and so forth.

And something tells me that I am not alone.

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  • 1 Alisher // Aug 31, 2006 at 7:23 pm

    Скажу честно и Ð¿Ð¾Ð´Ð¿Ð¸ÑˆÑƒÑÑŒ:
    — «You are not alone» — by M. Jackson.

  • 2 Constantinos Kouloumbris // Aug 31, 2006 at 9:01 pm

    I wish I could say the same about MS. Unfortunately I work on a Windows machine. What I can say though is that for my home needs hardly use MS Products, actually the only one I have is Office for Mac.

    Long live google…

  • 3 Alexey // Aug 31, 2006 at 10:59 pm

    There is one difference between Google and MS so far - Google products seem to be of a surprisingly high quality. And I mean not any particular product, but just an overall impression.

  • 4 Leonid Mamchenkov // Sep 1, 2006 at 10:18 am

    Alexey,

    I wouldn’t say that MS products of a low quality. They aren’t. The difference I think is that now there are more choices out there. If you want to use Google, you do so. If you don’t - you don’t. There are plenty of other search engines, webmail services, and so on, and so forth. But a few years ago, MS was pretty much the only way to go if you needed to interact with the world. Being forced to use MS, or not having other choices, changes the way you see things. ;)

  • 5 Alexey // Sep 2, 2006 at 4:25 am

    I did not say MS products are of low quality. What I meant to say is that so far whatever google does behaves smart and works well. I just can’t tell same about MS. Of course you can’t compare their product range and base… yet.

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