Microsoft releases BING (google competitor)

[Boilers]

Microsoft releases BING

Bing

Just got an email on this.

 

[Dryden]

I BINGed Indiana Gun Owners and it came right up. Cool.

 

[EvoVIIIMatt]

Formerly known as live.com. You can receive cashback from items bought using bing.com. I just received $76.69 from an ebay purchase I made a couple months ago.

 

[Boilers]

For some reason the name makes me think

"Bing! Bing! Biiinnnnng! Ricocheeeeeeet Rabbit!"

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EICOsZ889M[/ame]

 

[ATF Consumer]

I was wondering about that last night when I did a search and this Bing crap came up...I thought, "great, now I'm infected with some crap-ass virus"

 

[HICKMAN]

Bing huh? I'll have to google that...

 

[misconfig]

There is an age old adage in the world of business, "Be first, not better".

Personally I feel it's a stupid mistake on Micro$hafts part.

 

[Dryden]

Boilers wrote: For some reason the name makes me think

"Bing! Bing! Biiinnnnng! Ricocheeeeeeet Rabbit!"

That's going back a few years in my old memory bank. (and it's been overdrawn a few times.)

 

[slacker]

wow, first thing I thought when I saw the bing.com site "must have type the url in wrong, looks like those other search sites you get when you type a url wrong"

 

[bigg cheese]

There is an age old adage in the world of business, "Be first, not better".

Personally I feel it's a stupid mistake on Micro part.

Microsoft isn't first at anything....

They stole the "windows" idea from Apple. They just announced a new xbox 360 "wiimote" knockoff that is purportedly better.

And now this.... can't say it's out of character for them

 

[Griffeycom]

Microsoft isn't first at anything....

They stole the "windows" idea from Apple. They just announced a new xbox 360 "wiimote" knockoff that is purportedly better.

And now this.... can't say it's out of character for them

"Stole it" or made it better? I'd say there is a reason most people use Windows over Apple when both were available at the time!

 

[misconfig]

Microsoft isn't first at anything....

They stole the "windows" idea from Apple. They just announced a new xbox 360 "wiimote" knockoff that is purportedly better.

And now this.... can't say it's out of character for them

I agree, for anyone that doesn't want to read the history of Apple / Microsoft let me recommend the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley".

"Stole it" or made it better? I'd say there is a reason most people use Windows over Apple when both were available at the time!

Yes, STOLE it, by the way Apple's OS X is based from Darwin Unix and Windows is DOS based, TOTALLY different operating systems. Microsoft Window's can't hold a candle to any *nix based OS, bottom line, there is no argument. Gates, Balmer and Paul Allen completely jacked the code straight from Xerox, went to IBM and said they had a new OS; made the deal with IBM and THEN hacked up the source.

Steve Jobs + Steve Wozniak wrote OS/2 from scratch and marketed it themselves. In fact; Wonz is the first and ONLY person ever to completely engineer the hardware AND software of a personal PC from the ground up.

Pure Genius VS Thieves

 

[bigg cheese]

"Stole it" or made it better?

Both?

Actually, I have another answer -- marketing. I am a PC man, definitely, but I know history, and it doesn't lie .

I'd own a Mac, if they wouldn't make all the hardware proprietary. People who say "they just work!" are kidding themselves. They're being restricted to an overpriced product that remains entirely proprietary, and therefore controlled by, Apple.

But Kudos to Apple for being "worth" stealing?

 

[Boilers]

The hardware is NOT for all intents and purposes, proprietary. If it were, HOW could I have two Dell's running OS X?

For $199 each?

OS X installs on it quite easily.

Gizmodo - How To: Hackintosh a Dell Mini 9 Into the Ultimate OS X Netbook - Dell mini 9 hackintosh guide

 

[misconfig]

Both?

Actually, I have another answer -- marketing. I am a PC man, definitely, but I know history, and it doesn't lie .

I'd own a Mac, if they wouldn't make all the hardware proprietary. People who say "they just work!" are kidding themselves. They're being restricted to an overpriced product that remains entirely proprietary, and therefore controlled by, Apple.

But Kudos to Apple for being "worth" stealing?

Apple hardware isn't totally proprietary, also this type of hardware is nothing new, look at the giants, IBM and HP; they're server based market is all proprietary hardware and software. Apple is the only one that does it on a consumer base. You get STABILITY with this option, for the manufacturer only needs one main point of focus; you don't get mixed results and a crap load of BSOD's.

There is a good trade off now, Apple has gone with the Intel platform, no more IBM RISC chips so the code is far more portable and you get many other OS options. I own macs, anything I have that is not OS X based; is of course Linux based. Windows just doesn't cut it, it's poorly written that allows too many vulnerabilities to be exploited. Too much aftermarket stuff is required just to have it minimally functional.

You can't compete with *nix - it's the way of the past AND the future.

 

[66MustangCvt]

Microsoft Bing? Any relation to Microsoft Bob?

 

[misconfig]

Microsoft Bing? Any relation to Microsoft Bob?

LOL! Rep for you, I'm surprised anyone even remembered Bob. Microsoft Bob was the worst failure of an OS, ever.

 

[bigg cheese]

@ Boilers & Misconfig

I'll give you points . Apple is getting better, but still far from where the PC has gone in terms of moddability. It's only been in the last 5 years MAX, that they've started to branch out where the PC's been for well over 15 years.

If they start offering products on the OS that I want to play, I might get a MAC, but none of the latest and greatest games have been written or tested on it, so there is no guarantee they'll work any better or not.

Hehe, that last comment of mine reminds me of Lindows, if anyone remembers that

 

[Boilers]

Microsoft Bing? Any relation to Microsoft Bob?

The joke I came up with

"Microsoft is porting their software to another platform. It will be called Bob for Apples.

 

[misconfig]

@ Boilers & Misconfig

I'll give you points . Apple is getting better, but still far from where the PC has gone in terms of moddability. It's only been in the last 5 years MAX, that they've started to branch out where the PC's been for well over 15 years.

If they start offering products on the OS that I want to play, I might get a MAC, but none of the latest and greatest games have been written or tested on it, so there is no guarantee they'll work any better or not.

Hehe, that last comment of mine reminds me of Lindows, if anyone remembers that

I beg to differ!

Starcraft, Diablo, World Of WarCraft, Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 all have native OS X ports from Blizzard. The games you cannot play natively on OS X, simply install windows with OS X's bootcamp software, viola, you're running Windows on high performance hardware. You can just about use any application on OS X these days, like I said the code is far more portable now; since they changed from RISC PPC processors.

Also, about the software you'd like to toy with, Apple has some of the greatest digital video / music / photo editing software on the market.

Check this list out; I think you'll be pleasently surprised.

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