The battle of the giants. Google is releasing an OS to compete with Windows. Microsoft has a good head start though. It’s OS has been tried tested and used by millions including large corporates who don’t like to change. Google is using, yet another, version of Linux which so far people have avoided because it doesn’t run as well as windows straight from the box nor does it run the applications they are used to and what it does run has compatibility problems with the MS generated versions shared around the web.
The good news is that Google will certain bring Linux into the marketplace and resolve the out of the box issue and, hopefully, many of the compatibility problems.
But, no matter who wins, and it will be a while before we know, it won’t make a blind bit of difference to us. Both corporations want your data and MS wants less data but also wants lots of your money. Both corporations are sharks and we are the fresh meat.
Part of the issue I have is that both of them supply products which are useful and affordable but they then force you into giving them access to your inner most secrets. One issue I have with Google is that I refused a cookie and now can’t see any Capthas so I can no longer log on to Googlemail nor leave comments at the many blog sites that insist on a Google account. Googles control means that is the first option for commenter’s and you don’t want cookies you don’t get access. Tough cookie. 
What I’m hoping for though is that with Google making Linux more acceptable to the average punter then that will enable the changes to every Linux distro to allow me, and others like me, to escape MS but not jump into the frying pan next to it. No hidden backdoors for the government to use, no data transfer to Googles multi Yottabyte systems. (Bear in mind Google processes approx 20 Petabytes of data every day) Linking the data and selling that is their business. Linking data and controlling you is sadly governments business nowadays.
Keep your data private. Don’t link together things on the many sites out there and try and use the more obscure systems to give them a bit of market share and make it more difficult to gather information on you. I have no doubt that you would be surprised at what Google and MS could tell you about yourself and your habit. Remember we are in the surveillance age rapidly moving to a police state and then on to how it was in Soviet Russia but without the Vodka and cancer sticks because they will be banned.
Microsoft vs Google. The loser is you
The battle of the giants. Google is releasing an OS to compete with Windows. Microsoft has a good head start though. It’s OS has been tried tested and used by millions including large corporates who don’t like to change. Google is using, yet another, version of Linux which so far people have avoided because it doesn’t run as well as windows straight from the box nor does it run the applications they are used to and what it does run has compatibility problems with the MS generated versions shared around the web.
The good news is that Google will certain bring Linux into the marketplace and resolve the out of the box issue and, hopefully, many of the compatibility problems.
But, no matter who wins, and it will be a while before we know, it won’t make a blind bit of difference to us. Both corporations want your data and MS wants less data but also wants lots of your money. Both corporations are sharks and we are the fresh meat.
Part of the issue I have is that both of them supply products which are useful and affordable but they then force you into giving them access to your inner most secrets. One issue I have with Google is that I refused a cookie and now can’t see any Capthas so I can no longer log on to Googlemail nor leave comments at the many blog sites that insist on a Google account. Googles control means that is the first option for commenter’s and you don’t want cookies you don’t get access. Tough cookie.
What I’m hoping for though is that with Google making Linux more acceptable to the average punter then that will enable the changes to every Linux distro to allow me, and others like me, to escape MS but not jump into the frying pan next to it. No hidden backdoors for the government to use, no data transfer to Googles multi Yottabyte systems. (Bear in mind Google processes approx 20 Petabytes of data every day) Linking the data and selling that is their business. Linking data and controlling you is sadly governments business nowadays.
Keep your data private. Don’t link together things on the many sites out there and try and use the more obscure systems to give them a bit of market share and make it more difficult to gather information on you. I have no doubt that you would be surprised at what Google and MS could tell you about yourself and your habit. Remember we are in the surveillance age rapidly moving to a police state and then on to how it was in Soviet Russia but without the Vodka and cancer sticks because they will be banned.