Google vs Microsoft

I've just expirienced one thing that I think says pretty much about the software market in general. There have been a lot of complains over Micosoft that they deliver bad product and that if they weren't monipolist we would have something so much better..

Well, I don't think I have to say here that ALL software application have bugs. But let's look at the closest (as some say) compatitor of Microsoft - Google.


I've installed few applications from them. Which is Picassa, Google Internet Accelerator, Google Talk. While they all have great ideas and features, I wouldn't say they are in any way better then Microsoft's products (well, maybe they are better in maketting part though;)). For example Google Internet Axcelerator freaked me out because when I've installed it I've noticed that Windows is using more then 1 Gb of virtual memory. As I was programming different stuff I thought that this might be a bug in some of my projects, or Visual Studio. So I've been trying to catch some memory leaks in my code. And then I excidentaly unloaded the Google Internet Accelerator's process from the memory and it freed the memory for 400 Mbs (!!). And that's a simple apllication with almost no GUI.


Basicly what I'm trying to say with this post is that probably it really is impossible to develop the perfect application, but in a word were perfect is impossible the one who's closer to the perfect wins. And that seems to be MS...well for now for sure..