Re:We Need Viable Search Engine Competition
by antics on Saturday January 04, 2014 @05:57PM
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I'm responding to the fact that OP claims MS is not a good engineering firm. I don't think that point is arguable. We are not just good, we are among the very best in the world in terms of engineering achievements.
Of course, whether we survive is another question entirely! I did not speculate on this, nor would I. Who knows what the future holds, we've just this year basically bet the company on some fairly risky things.
That said, I'm all for hating on large corporations, but the idea that Cisco and Oracle -- literally the market leaders in their respective domains -- are "on their way out" because they don't innovate fast enough is not a very convincing argument. :( Precisely who poses them an existential threat at this point? I see no one at all.
What is your definition of good engineering, for example, does your definition include this as being good engineering? http://googleblog.blogspot.se/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses-g...
Re:We Need Viable Search Engine Competition
by antics on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @09:27PM
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What do you think my answer is going to be here, lysa? Yes?
If you have actual questions for me I'm happy to answer them. But what you've asked is not a question. You're just saying that to be mean. :(
Other companies no one could unseat:
* DEC
* Xerox
* Apple (a couple of times)
* Corel
* Lotus
* IBM (a couple times in a couple fields)
* And on and on.
The point is that given a bit of time, Google will mess up, someone will come up with some new tech, and/or google will implode under it's own crushing weight.