10-08-2010, 08:22 AM
Which I call a smart move, since Windows is a pain in the arse to configure hardware for a lot of the time.
Maul, I disagree almost entirely. First, I don't think Bing is better. It has some nice bells and whistles, but although I use it often as not (since I haven't bothered changing the default search provider in IE), I frequently have to switch to Google because it doesn't do what I want, such as search in a date range. Plus I get often find what I'm looking for in Google when it doesn't turn up at all in Bing.
And I think MS care about search a great deal, and want to catch Google very badly. Hence the attempted Yahoo purchase a year or two back. With Apple I think it's more of a personal thing (we know Gates and Balmer were not impressed by the "I'm a Mac/I'm a PC" ads), but on the business side, I think they are more worried about Google.
And I'm not sure why you brought up the train wreck that is Zune.
Maul, I disagree almost entirely. First, I don't think Bing is better. It has some nice bells and whistles, but although I use it often as not (since I haven't bothered changing the default search provider in IE), I frequently have to switch to Google because it doesn't do what I want, such as search in a date range. Plus I get often find what I'm looking for in Google when it doesn't turn up at all in Bing.
And I think MS care about search a great deal, and want to catch Google very badly. Hence the attempted Yahoo purchase a year or two back. With Apple I think it's more of a personal thing (we know Gates and Balmer were not impressed by the "I'm a Mac/I'm a PC" ads), but on the business side, I think they are more worried about Google.
And I'm not sure why you brought up the train wreck that is Zune.
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