Microsoft vs. Google — Mutually Assured Destruction 416
jmcbain writes "Robert X. Cringely asserts that nothing good will come out of the ongoing war between Microsoft and Google: 'The battle between Microsoft and Google entered a new phase last week with the announcement of Google's Chrome Operating System — a direct attack on Microsoft Windows. This is all heady stuff and good for lots of press, but in the end none of this is likely to make a real difference for either company or, indeed, for consumers. It's just noise — a form of mutually assured destruction intended to keep each company in check.'"
First Nuclear Weapon Equipped Post (Score:5, Funny)
Kaboom!
Dear Mr Cringley (Score:5, Funny)
M.A.D. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:M.A.D. (Score:5, Funny)
The only way to win is... to not install either OS?
Re:not good? (Score:3, Funny)
Chrome OS and Bing (Score:3, Funny)
Mutually assured distraction?
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Re:not good? (Score:2, Funny)
Techie - Um $0 - no really.
PHB - What about Microsoft? Techie - Um $250 if you include office, then another $35 for excahnge and active directory, plus $1500 for the terminal sessions / citrix / application virtualization.
PHB - So your telling me we can save all that by switching and forcing our users to use this new thing from google?
Techie - Yes.
PHB - So why are we spending this money again? you say they'll complain if change?
Techie - Yes they will for a while but after they are done bitching and moaning we can take the savings and spend them on people that don't bitch and moan.
PHB - So you said you wanted to be the new CTO....