
DELL TESTING PRE-INSTALLED GOOGLE SOFTWARE
SAN FRANCISCO: Dell and Google have confirmed they are testing a pre-installed package of Google software on Dell computers, in a potential blow to Microsoft's dominance of desktop software.
Ref. https://www.stuff.co.nz/hlc/1,,93498~3565860a28~,00.html
While I do use Google for searches, I am not sold on their toolbar and prefer to use Yahoo's instead. As for getting their products pre-installed on a machine, I am not in favor of that. Generally speaking I don't like products pushed on me when I buy a pc, so my opinion is not based on Google alone.
GOOGLE BATTLES MICROSOFT HEAD-ON
For more than a year now, whenever someone has accused Google of targeting Microsoft's sweet spot - its Microsoft Office productivity software - CEO Eric Schmidt has had a ready answer. That's missing the point, he likes to say, suggesting that Google is up to something so completely different from Microsoft that it's simplistic and downright silly to suggest that the two compete.
Ref. https://money.cnn.com/2007/02/21/magazines/...rtune/index.htm
Looks like Google is ensuring that the Bill Gates Monopoly is broken, BUT unless they come up with a new operating system I think they are just pulling straws:
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IBM TO PIPE GOOGLE GADGETS INTO OFFICES IBM has reached a deal with Google to bring the consumer internet into the office by piping YouTube and thousands of other web programs into IBM software used by millions of office workers. Ref. https://www.stuff.co.nz/hlc/1,,93498~3978611a28~,00.html |