Micorsoft-Google

[RonPrice]

GOOGLE-MICROSOFT

In the first year after I retired from FT work, July 1999 to July 2000, Google officially became the world's largest search engine. With its introduction of a billion-page index by June 2000 much of the internet's content became available in a searchable format at one search engine. In the next several years, 2000-2005, as I was retiring from PT work as well as casual and most volunteer activity that had occupied me for decades, Google entered into a series of partnerships and made a series of innovations that brought their vast internet enterprize billions of users in the international marketplace. Not only did Google have billions of users, but internet users like myself throughout the world gained access to billions of web documents in Google

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On 3/9/2553 at 12 นาฬิกา 51 นาที, RonPrice said:

GOOGLE-MICROSOFT

 

In the first year after I retired from FT work, July 1999 to July 2000, Google officially became the world's largest search engine. With its introduction of a billion-page index by June 2000 much of the internet's content became available in a searchable format at one search engine. In the next several years, 2000-2005, as I was retiring from PT work as well as casual and most volunteer activity that had occupied me for decades, Google entered into a series of partnerships and made a series of innovations that brought their vast internet enterprize billions of users in the international marketplace. Not only did Google have billions of users, but internet users like myself throughout the world gained access to billions of web documents in Google

They have their uses!!

[Angry Dragon]

Microsoft are a pain in the arse, the way they keep changing everything, just for the sake of change. No useful improvements - just unnecessary changes to make it look like they are doing something for their money.

 

If it ain't broke - DON'T FIX IT!!

 

Microsoft Word... The version I had up to a few days ago was absolutely fine...

Then here comes another one of their endless updates - and now I have to look around all over the place - just to perform the simple, routine tasks that were second nature to me - until the other day!

Edited October 14 by Angry Dragon

[Angry Dragon]

And they keep slipping in little things here and there to almost MAKE you use their flippin cloud services AI and all the rest of that bullshit!

Not so long ago, we used to opt in or decide to subscribe to extra functionality. IF we wanted it.

Now? You almost have to fight your way out if it!

 

I tried deleting Microsoft Edge and OneDrive altogether - just to save me from having to disable these programs from automatically starting up, every time I rebooted my laptop. Then my Windows wouldn't work until the laptop had gone through all it's "undo changes" - and all the rest of that routine.

I was quite busy that day... 'Just as well I had another machine up and running at the time, so I could get on with some work!

 

Talking of which...

 

 

Edited October 14 by Angry Dragon