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..
Monday, December 25, 2006
Google vs Microsoft
Posted by Shoniko at 16:48 0 comments
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