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Gates claims Google is all hype and bluster

"Special needs"
Tuesday, 4 March 2008, 10:38

TAKING QUESTIONS from the audience at his company's Sharepoint conference in Seattle yesterday, chief Vole Bill Gates dismissed Google's Apps as being of no threat whatsoever to Sharepoint.

He implied that the Search engine outfit had little to no understanding of businesses special needs, and noted that Google Talk is hardly changing the world. He did admit that Google's Internet searching tools were pretty good though.

Gates said that Google's online offerings, which many see as direct competition to the Volish Office and Sharepoint applications, just didn't have the richness or responsiveness that businesses demanded.

He also reckoned that Google were all mouth and no trousers, making much of the marketing hype surrounding its apps, but gaining very little market penetration at the end of the day.

"The day they announce them is their best day," he said. Adding in an aside: "I might be biased."

Asked about who he would back as US president, Gates refused to publicly comment, but directed people to the website www.one.org, which is one of his funded projects to get candidates to state their positions on global health care. ยต

L'Inq
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Mouth Has Better Taste

All Software is Confined to Legal Timeline, After So Long, to pay, it must be replaced. To Replace it, First Distructive Testing Sequence Must be RUN. Virus Hacking. Microsoft owns more than one browser company & Maxthon will Knock your system off line. With that ,next IE is promoted as next security level.

Its Fair Game, Nothing lasts forever, especially in radically new field of home computing. Its' Address BAR that hard to get HTML for, or people would put it in their email signature.

What rolls out my trousers NO One could endure.

thomas drashek

posted by : William_of_William, 04 March 2008 Complain about this comment
Yeah right...

640KB ought to be enough for anybody...

---Billie Gates----

Need to be said more?

BTW, Microsoft never ever invented anything at all, they only adopt software and make it worse.
Samples are all over the place.
And lest start about Vista, MS'ses worst piece of software this Century.
In my opinion Billie is king when it comes to producing rubbish :-)

posted by : Bas Heijermans, 04 March 2008 Complain about this comment
Look

Gates says someone else's products are all hype? well he IS the expert isn't he?

posted by : W.-, 04 March 2008 Complain about this comment
Watch Bill discuss Google Apps

Here is the video 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxrVni27Jy8

posted by : WThompson, 04 March 2008 Complain about this comment
Hmmm....

"Gates claims Google is all hype and bluster" - Kettle, Pot, The, Calling, Black, The - re-arrange into a well known phrase

posted by : SNooPY, 05 March 2008 Complain about this comment
"little to no understanding of businesses special needs"

Oh, and Gates has demonstrated ample understanding, of course. Like "getting" the Internet five years after the fact.
And I'm sure retailers all over the world simply LOVE paying the Windows tax.
And let's not forget the wonderful success of the Tablet PC. Not to mention the upcoming Table PC.
Yeah, Bill, you're really credible on such things.

posted by : Pascal Monett, 05 March 2008 Complain about this comment
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