Coincidence ? I dont think so
By far the most successful operating system ever devised for highly powered computing equipment.
After this date, all computing equipment at the high end of the scale will be required, legally, to make the upgrade to Vista.
Is it any wonder then that both Google and Yahoo are now in a bind, where they find that all those machines which power their internet infrastructure, will now have to be swapped out and upgraded to a more contemporary Vista platform ?
Google, with its hundreds of thousands of computers, will need …. hundreds of thousands of technicians to perform these upgrades, and yet, since they have a consistent history of bad-mouthing Microsoft and and playing ‘I am Better than Thou’ with them for so many years … Google finds that their staff are now underskilled and as obsolete as their aging Windows XP machines.
Because of their company’s poor attitude towards the hand that feeds them (Microsoft), Google staff have been suffering without access to the premium MSDN services. Their skills have rotted on the vine like so many bad potatoes.
So - I ask you - is it any coincidence that both Google and Yahoo (yahoo being in a similar position to google thanks to their poor behaviour) - are now crawling towards the dinner table with their paws outstretched looking for a white knight to help them in their time of distress ?
The business plan de-jour in the computing IT industry has always been :
- To develop a best of breed product
- Get the market to take notice
- Partner with Microsoft, and then be bought out.
- Profit
So it comes as no surprise to me to see both Google and Yahoo scrambling to be the sweetest and most polite child at the christmas table just as Grandpa reaches out to cut the cake.
April 10th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Oh JerryLeeCooper, you know how to make someone’s day!
April 10th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Where was this originally posted?
April 10th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
>those machines which power their internet infrastructure,
Thos machiens all run linux. What the hell are you talkling about?
April 10th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
From:
http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12558-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=46457&messageID=861566
April 15th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
@Meneer R: Exactly but in JerryLeeCooper’s logic, linux runs on top of the windows kernel using its “services” so this will only make perfect sense to him.