Comments on: Microsoft teams with Sun, aims to take Google down

By: pp

pp — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:06:15 +0000

i had a feeling microsoft and sun was in cahoots. i work at microsofts chicago data center. which is still under construction. and there is a big room where they are going to be storing shipping containers with servers inside of them. and as far as i know sun has a patent for using shipping containers to hold servers at a data center

By: GeeWiz

GeeWiz — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:38:26 +0000

Sun is almost out of business, so if Ballmer wants to pay them to play at something that will have no impact against Google why wouldn’t Sun take their money!

In about three years I bet we will have the death knell meter on old Redmond!

By: jazzyl

jazzyl — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:59:20 +0000

Google is the ish…. Or the new era like a fitted cap I prefare google that live seach

By: fatboyslim

fatboyslim — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:57:40 +0000

@slim…what qualifies you to make such rash statements? Do you even know microsofts numbers? And what they put into r and d??

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:42:54 +0000

Microsoft gaining on Google with these great partnerships should be as easy as climbing Mount Everest in shorts and sandals! HAHA

My prediction Ballmer out in less then three years! Windows Mobile will be lucky to have any users in three years.

By: Kamokazi

Kamokazi — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:02:18 +0000

Why don’t the spend time in improving their search results. I accidentially end up using their search from time to time (defaults on a foreign computer) and the signal to noise ratio is considerably higher than Google, and even Yahoo.

By: Jdslim

Jdslim — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:56:57 +0000

Ok I am sorry I used the word can’t, if microsoft uses all of it resources it can take down google. But can they afford stopping all R&D for their software business and put it towards this project. Google isn’t competing directly with microsoft with the development of the Android OS, Windows Mobile is a small part of what microsoft does. Now Google is a search engine and that’s what they do. Microsoft would be competing with Google main business. Not going to be pretty

By: likeabite

likeabite — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:34:25 +0000

I mean tactics have to be tried you know. The whole idea of give up can be said for when google started out and yahoo ruled the search world…if they had given up they wouldn’t have been on top now…same goes for Apple when it was about to go bankrupt, now look at the ipod/iphone.
Haven’t we learned anything form the election? Can’t shouldn’t be in our vocabulary people. Sounds a bit cliche but it is true…especially if you have the money to try.

By: brum

brum — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:25:38 +0000

Guess this is what they meant in response to Yang that they have moved on? Doesn’t sound nearly as game changing.

By: Jdslim

Jdslim — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:10:31 +0000

Microsoft is a software company and they should stick to software. I am sorry but they can’t compete with a dot com company the size of google.

By: Oscar

Oscar — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:35:53 +0000

Anyone using Java is smart enough to know that Live Search is crap. So, user will simply uncheck the “Install Live Search toolbar” option. Microsoft is just wasting time with partnership… building good products, that would help!

By: jimmykicks

jimmykicks — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:20:03 +0000

This makes no sense. If Microsoft wanted to put the MSN toolbar into IE, why don’t they just go ahead and put it in there themselves?

As a developer I *love* Java the way it is. Polluting the JRE download with some random MSN toolbar crap is not good for Java.

By: keymaker

keymaker — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:12:27 +0000

Problem here is, Live Search won’t help you find anything, i mean microsoft should be glad they even have 8.3 market share cause live search is nearly unusable for finding anything.