Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Desktop Search Tool in Vista: Google versus Microsoft

I used to think that Google was a great company...during the last couple of years Google brought us Gmail, Blogger, Picassa etc...brilliant web tools...but now I'm thinking, I'm even thinking of closing this blog...the reasons? Google's attitude in the context of that conflict that opposes it to Microsoft about the ability to use a third party desktop search tool in Windows Vista. In this story there are already hundreds or thousands of users, of amazed users - and I'm one of them - standing for a change on the side of Microsoft. My position: for a start I don't even understand how Microsoft, threatened by Google, already accepted to make a change in Vista via the upcoming Service Pack 1. First of all I want to say and insist: NOBODY NEEDS GOOGLE DESKTOP IN WINDOWS VISTA. ESPECIALLY THE SEARCH TOOL IS NOT NEEDED, AND I WOULD SAY: UNWANTED!!! My god the indexing and it's search tools are a major feature of Vista. they're native in Windows now and noone, not even Google has the right to touch that. Considering how poor Google Desktop search tool performs when you compare it to the native Windows tool, considering the degree of integration of this native tool in Vista, GOOGLE SHOULD JUST KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT THIS TIME! And stop trying to get involved as a backdoor in an operating system that DOES NOT BELONG TO GOOGLE, if necessary to precise. Microsoft Windows Vista is a Microsoft Product my god! Who do you think you are at Google???
Can you imagine that? Even though Microsoft already complied by stupidly promising to change things in the upcoming Service Pack one for Vista, just to please bloody Google, Google is still taking the case to court just in case!!! Just in case Microsoft wouldn't hold a promise that they never should have made in the first place. I can't believe it! I feel some kind of disgust for Google actually. I'd like to say to Google: hey down there! be able to bring us an Operating System or keep your bloody mouth shut! God am I angry! Google won't be happy until all kind of crappy third party software will be able to run in Vista, making it unstable, and not Vista nor Windows anymore. Hey Google! who do you thing will be remembered in History, you or Microsoft???
Google is just, and only a good Web Search engine, there are hundreds of other search engines available and anytime one of them could replace you in the near future. Who is standing in front of Microsoft at the moment: NOBODY! and certainly not you. People are gonna hate you for what you're trying to do to Microsoft, and you will deserve it.

links here and here.

We need a big movement of users to stand for Microsoft at this time, and to stand against Google. Now if you guys at Google feel this post does not comply with your bloody EULA, feel free to close my blog, I don't care.

adding:
not to mention that Google Desktop sidebar is shamelessly imitating Windows Sidebar using gadgets reproducing the exact design of Microsoft gadgets. A good example is the gadget featuring the CPU and RAM usage. When is too much too much?

Could the next step be to require that Microsoft removes its native indexing tool in Vista, because such an integration wouldn't be fair for poor whining competitor Google, just like others in the past ridiculously required that Windows Media Player should be removed from the OS? The EU obtained that and there's a special "N" version of Vista available at retailers' all over Europe now. How pathetic! The point, the real point for the EU, or any other private organization is to get Microsoft complying, or paying huge fines. This is not acceptable! People are blackmailing Microsoft and that must stop! Now! so my last message will be: Google! STAY AWAY FROM VISTA! STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! WE DON'T NEED YOU THERE!

Just in case guys, here's a link to a copy of that post in my blog in Windows Live Space.

for those interested, pdf files relating legal stuff from Google and Microsoft available here

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