Google Launches Biggest Attack on Microsoft to Date

[Ari Rankum]

EDIT- Any admin so inclined can remove the botched edit of my subject line above - please remove "Makes"

Think about how most of your experience with your PC at home or at work involves your browser. Think about how much you enjoy interacting with objects that can be reached from any location on the Internet, say this Forum, and how that experience qualitatively differs from experiences related to access to objects that are only available on one machine, eg a particular email account, or a particular file.

What Google intends with Docs and Spreadsheets is to shift the paradigm to one where global access to your files of interest is the standard. They've already promoted similar ideas with GMail. With Google's OS-independent mail, documents, and spreadsheets, all reachable through your browser of choice from anywhere on the planet, Microsoft should be very, very scared. If they're not, they haven't thought this through to its logical conclusion.

If you want to take a tour of Docs and Spreadsheets, it's available here:

Google Docs & Spreadsheets Tour

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[twowheelnut]

****. The Borg are arriving earlier than predicted.

 

[NC_Yank]

If they look anything like 7 of 9 then I have no problem being assimilated.

 

[Ari Rankum]

If they look anything like 7 of 9 then I have no problem being assimilated.

Yes. She does look quite hot. But I gots to know, are they real, or are they costume department?

 

[twowheelnut]

If they look anything like 7 of 9 then I have no problem being assimilated.

Yes. She does look quite hot. But I gots to know, are they real, or are they costume department?

Mammarex.

 

[Ari Rankum]

If they look anything like 7 of 9 then I have no problem being assimilated.

Yes. She does look quite hot. But I gots to know, are they real, or are they costume department?

Mammarex.

Ha. Good. I was headed down that "live or Memorex" path, but I just couldn't come up with Mammarex on my own.

 

[TejasFJR]

live or mamarex??? does anybody really care? assimilate me please. BTW, I'd say the borg is a little late since Scott McNealy has been talking about this being around the corner for a while now.

 

[Ari Rankum]

BTW, I'd say the borg is a little late since Scott McNealy has been talking about this being around the corner for a while now.

Sour grapes. McNealy and company had every opportunity to do what Google is going to succeed in doing and botched every one of them. Take pulling Solaris for x86 off the market. Take waiting to adopt commodity hardware and the resultant economies of scale until way, way too late. Take deciding to open source Solaris long after Linux proved open source as a way to increase customer AND developer base, and long after there wasn't a significant enough customer base for the move to even cause a ripple in the market. Take sitting on their hands, or, more correctly, a mountain of cash, and doing nothing but bitch as their competitors ate their lunch for years. Sun is the poster child for what happens to those that rest on their laurels in a community driven by Moore's Law.