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Disaster in the making... - Nate Janewit

What? People seem to be throwing around calls of "monopoly" around too liberally. It doesn't really apply here yet, especially as the market is far from settling down and is still in its infancy. This is in comparison to operating systems or search/search advertising where true monopolies currently do exist and should be defeated. - Nate Janewit

Advertisers don't have very many places to go to. - Nate Janewit

If search has become a commodity as this article seems to suggest (it's already "good enough" with whatever is out there), then Bing along with the entire search industry is in a lot more hurt than I currently estimate. - Nate Janewit

Really? And Vista's innumerable varieties don't confuse users? How about Windows Server 2008 being sold alongside Vista? - Nate Janewit

Mini tends to be rather spot on with his analysis from a company insider standpoint, so this is meaningful. That said, I'm still skeptical...we'll see from the results. - Nate Janewit

Hahahaha! - Nate Janewit

I've been using the internal release, and Outlook especially is a TON better than previous releases. I still think the Exchange web interfaces suck, but that's to be expected from Microsoft. - Nate Janewit

Google Docs' TOS is really evil, I admit. Consumer Watchdog nailed that Google's privacy record is really spotty--and that they are spinning this to whomever in government will listen. - Nate Janewit

That would make sense, wouldn't it? - Nate Janewit

The promotion only really consolidates Windows engineering with Windows marketing. Hopefully, that will mean marketing will be a little more realistic in its aims. - Nate Janewit

Google has a history of alienating past friends, like Yahoo and Mozilla. - Nate Janewit

The war to disrupt Microsoft's monopoly is on! At the same time, though, can Google succeed against a very strong, entrenched product line? I'm all for competition--Windows is in dire need of it--but the consequences if Google were to win would be almost apocalyptically dire: complete control over our means to access information and our means to manipulate and use it on our "own" machines. - Nate Janewit

On a side note: I wonder what the Mozilla Foundation (and perhaps all of the many other groups this announcement could potentially quash like Ubuntu and Debian) must be thinking. - Nate Janewit

It's incredibly interesting that LBS services, much like what it promises to users, are themselves regionally rather than universally popular. "Popularity of...applications is still dependent on region. For example, here in North America, navigation and family-safety solutions are the most popular. In Western Europe, navigation is the most used, followed by local search and friend finders, but there's no significant uptake in safety applications. These sorts of regional preferences will lead to a dynamic LBS market worldwide." - Nate Janewit

Sounds like an interesting read, if the writing style is more substantive than the almost immediately obvious "Long Tail." An important point relevant to search: "Free can also be used to kill off competition and create a barrier to entry." - Nate Janewit

What does this mean? It likely means Google is ready to aggressively market these products in distribution deals to supplant Microsoft's monopoly on the space. This would be a good thing--if they didn't have to resort to funding it using the monopoly of their own on search advertising. - Nate Janewit

Evil is in the eye of the beholder. - Nate Janewit

Reading the Heretech article saddens me. The primary reason for not switching seems to be mostly "I'm used to Google, and this isn't Google" despite admissions that Bing is largely just as good. It is too early to say, as the author also points out, but if the author is true, despite the data and the early indications of success, Google's search and information monopoly would be unstoppable--and a far more dangerous monopoly than any that have ever existed before. - Nate Janewit

A dastardly move if I ever saw one. - Nate Janewit

Will it have any impact on healthcare? - Nate Janewit

That's a lost cause if I ever heard one. - Nate Janewit

Then why was the valuation lowered and why are they giving employees opportunities to cash out? - Nate Janewit

If they do, it will imply a complete loss of faith on their app platform as well as a major boost for Android. - Nate Janewit

Haha. - Nate Janewit

Much like abortion is to the US, brain death and organ donation is to Japan. - Nate Janewit

Reliable cloud computing is difficult, even for Google. - Nate Janewit

Ouch! - Nate Janewit

One questions how useful it will be, but it is nice to see the fruits of the labor of Sean Suchter's team. - Nate Janewit

I have no idea why the team bothers. Honestly. - Nate Janewit