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• Let's not forget that MS Office ties nicely into the rest of the Microsoft stack: Sharepoint, Unified Messaging, IM,OCS, Forms Server, Project, LiveMeeting, Exchange, Excel Services etc.... Google's solution is laughable right now and doesn't compare in features, capability, or interoperability. You can't just look at the Office Client alone you need to look at how the enterprise leverages it to present information and data that is supported by many line of business app that knowledge workers use. We arent' just talking about creating a static doc or spreadsheet when we talk about the enterprise. I think it is going to take more than 30-50 "updates" In reply to: "Google says Docs to catch up to Office next year"

  November 13, 2009

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• Accept in this case they are ripping off Activision. In reply to: "Report: Microsoft bans 1 million Xbox Live players"

  November 11, 2009

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• The claim that MS has "forced" Bing as the default on anyone is a bunch of bunk. I change search engines and default pages at will with no problems. People on this thread are inventing issues just to bash something they don't want to like. In reply to: "Bing grabs 10 percent of search market"

  September 16, 2009

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• So far, my experience with Bing has been very good. Ocassionally I will switch to Google, but for the most part, I find what I am looking for on Bing with highly contextual results. In reply to: "Microsoft launches Bing 'Visual Search'"

  September 14, 2009

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• I have to say that I am really surprised by how well Bing performs. At release I thought the name was stupid and that it would be another crappy version of Live. Bing offers a real alternative to other search engines and seems to be improving. I won't say its better than Google, which it will have to be in order to get people to think about switching, but I have to admit on a side by side search comparison Bing is nearly neck and neck with Google on search results. In reply to: "Bing 2.0 could be around the corner"

  September 12, 2009

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• Yeah, I have had my iPhone now for about 3 months. I will be dumping it in October when the next wave of new cell phones comes out.

  September 3, 2009

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• Should be an interesting discussion. I think it would be great to have every book ever printed available online. However, I much rather see the Library of Congress own this rather than a single company like Google. Intellectual Property needs to be respected and its inventors compensated everytime it is used. In reply to: "Amazon: Google Books deal an 'unprecedented' copyright hack"

  September 2, 2009

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• Thank you! Very few enterprise companies can achieve this, but it is a worth goal. I can really only think of a couple industries that actually have this type of reliability: Banking/stock market and 911. Let's not forget that 5 9's also includes planned downtime.
  
  80% of issues like this can be explained by poor operations around people and process. In this case it was simply bad change management.
  
  When computing becomes as reliable as using a telephone or turning on the power in our homes, that will be a great day, but right now, it is a goal for most and not reality. I have email on hotmail, yahoo, and gmail. I have seen outages on all of them, but my mission critical email will never be hosted by any of them. In reply to: "Gmail outage blamed on capacity miscalculation"

  September 2, 2009

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• Has Google announced the root cause yet? In reply to: "Gmail users suffer through outage"

  September 1, 2009

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• Vegaman_Dan
  
  No you don't give your SSN or anything beyond your address and phone number. Also, you can use Paypal for your rebates and recieve them faster than the 60 days everyone seems to be stating. You deal directly with the merchant you are doing business with and Bing Cashback is a go between. The merchant gets your business because it was found with Bing, presumably MSFT charges for that "click thru", but then passes it to you the consumer.
  
  I just signed up to see exactly what was involved and a simple Live or Hotmail account and then a couple of fields to identify your physical location and that's it. Really minimal amount of info, which I would think is needed to actually get the rebate to you.
  
  Don't get me wrong, all kinds of metrics are being collected along with your IP address I am sure, but that is par for the course for ecommerce no matter who you buy from.
  
  Check it out, you can always plug fake info in if you are concerned, you can even setup a dummie hotmail account. In reply to: "Microsoft's Bing decides on bribery"

  August 31, 2009

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