{"id":1822,"date":"2005-09-20T22:21:27","date_gmt":"2005-09-21T01:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=1519"},"modified":"2005-09-20T22:21:27","modified_gmt":"2005-09-21T01:21:27","slug":"re-soft-on-microsoft-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2005\/09\/20\/re-soft-on-microsoft-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Soft on Microsoft?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel Steinberg<\/a> kindly pointed me at Tim O’Reilly’s comments<\/a> on Phil Wainewright’s piece<\/a> about Google and Microsoft occupying different spaces:<\/p>\n

Google’s turf is the Internet. It’s not interested in devices that don’t connect to it – Microsoft is welcome to that market. It simply wants to extend its reach to any device that does go online.<\/p>\n

\n…Microsoft’s business model depends on everyone upgrading their computing environment every two to three years. Google’s depends on everyone exploring what’s new in their computing environment every day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This illustrates my original point very well. Google isn’t trying to compete with Microsoft at all (although Microsoft may be trying to compete with Google…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daniel Steinberg kindly pointed me at Tim O’Reilly’s comments on Phil Wainewright’s piece about Google and Microsoft occupying different spaces: Google’s turf is the Internet. It’s not interested in devices that don’t connect to it – Microsoft is welcome to that market. It simply wants to extend its reach to any device that does go […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-to","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}