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Thread ID: 81226	2007-07-21 00:49:00	"98, XP, Vista, Vienna+" - Help!	bluesky787 (12574)	Press F1

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570844	2007-07-21 06:01:00	Was that from his book that he put out back in 1995 or so? If so then how do you explain Google's success with internet search against Microsoft's failure to spot that search was going to be the "killer app" since that is what I would call true vision and innovation on Google's behalf. Google has scored a bullseye with internet search Apple has done it with portable music and they are about to do it again with the iPhone Microsoft initially did it with partnering and Office Mozilla is kicking IE's butte with Firefox especially in Europe Apple and Google have partnered up. Microsoft is looking to partner with Yahoo who are currently struggling with declining profits Microsoft is a huge company, but they have slowed somewhat in the last 7 years whereas their competition has picked up considerably.	winmacguy (3367)
570845	2007-07-21 06:21:00	Googles' success is because it developed a superior search engine and indexing than the existing search engines at the time. It has become a "brand" name now, as you can see when people refer to searching the internet simply as "googling it", not Yahoo'ing it or AltaVista'ering it. I think he was referring not to search engines, but more online content in general. The quote is from a book called "The World in 2001", and I am not sure when it was published - see here (www.microsoft.com)	Jen (38)
570846	2007-07-21 06:26:00	So Bill knew that online content would be a big feature (he's not stupid) but MS didn't have the innovation, vision or finishing ability to make MSN Live search a winner. That would be the difference between Google - Apple and Microsoft - Yahoo or who ever> Thanks for the link Jen. I just had a read of it. It reads like an explanation from a person with a great understanding of software/technology rather than a person who can see (an entrepreneur ) what devices or services they believe that people will be using and what they will create for those people to use.	winmacguy (3367)
570847	2007-07-21 06:30:00	Oh I think he had the innovation and vision, it was just someone else did it much better than his developers could.	Jen (38)
570848	2007-07-21 06:38:00	And that someone continues to do so in leaps and bounds. An admin at a previous company I worked for told me that once a month Bill would get some of his employees to go and buy every device and computer available and they would take them back to Bill's place and unwrap them and examine them and see what was available, how they were packaged and who was doing what in the consumer electronics market so that Bill could keep up with the current technological innovations, and also know where Microsoft should be going in the market. That tells me that Microsoft is more of a follower and a copier than an innovator because if they were the ones making the successful software for the great gadgets they wouldn't need to worry what everyone else was doing because everyone else would be trying to follow Microsoft and that ain't happening.	winmacguy (3367)
570849	2007-07-21 07:15:00	You think so? Quote: "Today, you always know whether you are on the Internet or on your PC's hard drive. Tomorrow, you will not care and may not even know." -- Bill Gates Yeah he did. Thats why Netscape before IE.	pctek (84)
570850	2007-07-21 07:23:00	Yeah he did. Thats why Netscape before IE. That is also why Microsoft bundled IE with Windows to illegally force Netscape out of the market as opposed to just making a better browser even though a lot of people say that Netscape was all that great. Microsoft may not be innovative but they do recognize a threat to their dominance when they see one.	winmacguy (3367)
570851	2007-07-21 12:29:00	www.computerhovel.com	zqwerty (97)
570852	2007-07-21 14:04:00	Next version of Windows: Call it 7: news.com.com	zqwerty (97)
570853	2007-07-21 21:54:00	Interesting read. I notice Google showed up well before IE.	winmacguy (3367)
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