Re:Yahoo shutting down AltaVista and other services
by gcb0 on Saturday June 29, 2013 @02:41AM
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Killed it and allowed Microsoft to boss them around another couple of decades thanks to office monopoly. Google is now getting close to end this.
Re:Yahoo shutting down AltaVista and other services
by mynameisvlad on Saturday June 29, 2013 @02:45AM
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Google ending Microsoft Office's monopoly.
That's funny.
Re:Yahoo shutting down AltaVista and other services
by hayksaakian on Saturday June 29, 2013 @03:27AM
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Honestly not unthinkable in this day and age. Maybe office becomes the corporate niche thing, and everyone uses g docs or a tablet/phone app at home.
Re:Yahoo shutting down AltaVista and other services
by dredmorbius on Saturday June 29, 2013 @03:52AM
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I suspect an interpretation, if not grandparent's, is that one monopoly is being traded for another.
Re:Yahoo shutting down AltaVista and other services
by norswap on Saturday June 29, 2013 @07:46AM
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gdocs still has a long way to go. It's a harmless toy compared to Office, and I'm very far from being a power user.
Re:Yahoo shutting down AltaVista and other services
by gcb0 on Monday July 01, 2013 @03:03AM
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Well, my place of work uses google drive exclusively. That's 60.000 people less paying office licenses for Microsoft...
Re:Yahoo shutting down AltaVista and other services
by learningram on Saturday June 29, 2013 @01:48AM
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Wish he was alive for a few more years :(
For those not initiated, OpenDoc was a multimedia document format developed by Apple before Steve Jobs came back to Apple, which was when he violently killed OpenDoc.