It was December 2003 and Bill Gates was poking around on the Google website and came across the “Help Wanted” page and found the job specifications put up to be very similar to the Microsoft job specifications.
The scare is slowly becoming a reality now. Google has been slowly unveiling new products – from photo-sorting software to Web-based email to search via mobile phone. It gave users a alternative to write, post, share and print documents without using Windows and MS Word.
As one of my friend’s told me, very soon a time will come when a PC would just be a machine to connect to the net and you would connect to the google server, write documents on their text editor and save it to the server and mail it to anyone you want to, using Google mail. The only product which scores for MS is the Excel. There is a lot you can do with that product which you can’t with anything else. Google has yet to come up with a spreadsheet of its own.
On Jan 1st the LA Times reported on the google-fueled paranoia. And maybe today Larry Page would come up with an announcement in the Consumer Electronics Show at Las Vegas. For the first time maybe, Bill Gates’ announcement of the latest MS offering Vista is being overshadowed by what Google might announce today!!!
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hey...i like google and everything it offers. I've just discovered the delights of Picasa and am driving everyone crazy making collages of strange pictures!
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