slate.com — Office isn't the only Microsoft hegemony that Google Gears could help destroy. One of the defining differences between Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux is the application lineup. That's given the crew in Redmond, Wash., tremendous power. But technologies like Gears render the operating system irrelevant.
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whitec00Jun 19, 2007
No offense to the original poster but the thought of this app killing Microsoft is just hype. Microsoft already has off-line synchronization. Sure it ain't perfect and could certainly use some work in terms of being better integrated across the entire OS, but it is there and MS could easily retool it to compete against Google Gears. Not only that, but you have to have sites out there that offer the functionality for Google Gears so your looking at millions of sites adopting this technology. Hard to say if that will happen.Secondly, Microsoft Corp. and Apple Corp. are bringing out the guns with their Backup models. MS has Home Server and Apple has Time Machine. Both OS's have the ability now to sign in to their respective servers and allow access to all of your files on your home network no matter where you happen to be. Toss in synchronization and you have off line access to your stuff. Like I said, the concepts between Google and Microsoft/Apple may not exactly be the same, but these two big corporations can easily retool thier OS's to compensate for what Gears promises. Party on Garth!!!!
Closed AccountJun 19, 2007
words I didn't understand in the article...Augur, ceremoniously, wrangle, bloated, behemoth, hegemony, oomph, swaths, pervasive, superfluous, purveyors, altruistic, flabbergasted, kill.
crazybuggerJun 19, 2007
Killing Google is even more easier.All know that IE has 70% market.All microsoft has to do is write ad blocker plugin for IE to block google adsense and distribute it freely.-----That is it!---------How many of us ever bother to change the default setting in our browser.I bet relatively few.
jcardinalJun 19, 2007
There should be a correction to this article as follows: web service = desktop application
tony23Jun 19, 2007
@connerdowneyHow did you do that?