JD88
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stevejnb :
What a shock... Come into a thread on MS and JD88 is in it initiating snarky comments about MS and lauding how wonderful Google is... It's like bloody clockwork.
Jim, sometimes I wonder how much Microsoft pays you. What you just accused Google of doing is exactly what Microsoft has built its entire business around. Even if all Google had was its search engine, it would still be more than anything Microsoft has ever came up with on its own. Conveniently you have completely ignored the cloud computing revolution.
JD, you are the *last* person who should be accusing anyone of being a paid company man on this website. You and Jimmy are, ironically, practically inverses of each other, each one jumping headfirst into MS/Google threads to espouse the many virtues of the respective corporate giants and slagging into the others. The biggest difference is, I see Jimmy in Google threads *far* more rarely than I see you barging into MS threads. If you really want to rag on Jimmy for this, reading both of your posts, you should be aware that you seem every bit as "on message" as he does, being a consistent Google white knight. Heck, our first interaction was you criticizing the Surface line for things that you find *perfectly* acceptable in Chromebooks when they were even worse in the same area (app/program support), waving a double standard high for everyone to see, and I couldn't help but wonder "who's paying this guy?" If you really want to throw that stone as if it's bad to look like you're paid by a company you support, you should know, your single minded dogged determination to make sure everyone knows how bad MS is and how great Google is really paints you as the archetypal paid poster.
JD88 :
Jim, sometimes I wonder how much Microsoft pays you. What you just accused Google of doing is exactly what Microsoft has built its entire business around. Even if all Google had was its search engine, it would still be more than anything Microsoft has ever came up with on its own. Conveniently you have completely ignored the cloud computing revolution.
JD, you are the *last* person who should be accusing anyone of being a paid company man on this website. You and Jimmy are, ironically, practically inverses of each other, each one jumping headfirst into MS/Google threads to espouse the many virtues of the respective corporate giants and slagging into the others. The biggest difference is, I see Jimmy in Google threads *far* more rarely than I see you barging into MS threads. If you really want to rag on Jimmy for this, reading both of your posts, you should be aware that you seem every bit as "on message" as he does, being a consistent Google white knight. Heck, our first interaction was you criticizing the Surface line for things that you find *perfectly* acceptable in Chromebooks when they were even worse in the same area (app/program support), waving a double standard high for everyone to see, and I couldn't help but wonder "who's paying this guy?" If you really want to throw that stone as if it's bad to look like you're paid by a company you support, you should know, your single minded dogged determination to make sure everyone knows how bad MS is and how great Google is really paints you as the archetypal paid poster.
Someone has to be the voice of reason around here. Toms gives Microsoft coverage every time Ballmer uses the bathroom. The case in point is that new article about how Cortana is supposedly better than Siri and Google Now. Or, how about all the "XP is dying please buy Windows 8 ASAP" articles? Between that and the 25 "amen" posts on those stories by people like Jim, it's almost getting laughable.
It's not about Google. It's about the expansion of free and open source software. I'm just tired of people getting ripped off by companies using their market share monopolies to bully them into buying proprietary solutions while launching multi-million dollar ad campaigns against the free alternatives. Or, forming patent alliances to try to sue anyone who uses them in products.
I don't care who it is. Microsoft, Apple, Comcast, Verizon, or whomever is using their money or market power to abuse the consumer or the underdog competition, it's not right and I'll gladly promote the alternatives.
Ubuntu is about to launch 14.04, where's the coverage Toms? Where's the review? Google just added Google Now support to Chrome for the desktop. Where's Toms? The United Kingdom is switching their entire federal government over to open source office solutions, what about it Toms?