Re: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Wants Imitate Google, but with Windows ME2
Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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Gates threatens to buy millions and millions of servers for Microsoft
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| See what we mean about the thud? Here's Gates giving his long goodbye and
| basically outlining what Google has been up to for years.
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| We may be underplaying the customization work that Microsoft already has
| underway, but we doubt it. The company buys its gear from the Tier 1 set and
| Rackable Systems. It's pretty well locked into the old model, while Google
| has managed to turn Intel of all companies into a custom design house, with
| the chip maker crafting bespoke motherboards. Google's also building its own
| switches and doing unspeakable things with disks.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/04/microsoft_datacenter_millions/
Who in their right mind would outsource their email systems to M$? From
privacy issues to lock in to possible price-gouging to the possiblity of
malware running rampant through these data centers, you'd have to be
outta yer freakin mind!
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