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Little Details...

Let me start off by saying that I have a TON of respect for Google as a company. They've done a HUGE number of innovative things and their competition is forcing Microsoft to deliver more value to customers.

I think MSFT views GOOG as a competitor and I would suspect the reverse is true, so even if you are running Windows XP, I would think you'd want to change the screensaver for the PC at your booth.

IMAGE_056 It's the little details that matter.

Published Thursday, November 01, 2007 12:42 PM by jerman of the board

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# re: Little Details...

I would totally agree with you - if you (by You - I mean your company of course - nothing personal) do the same...

But as you can see in my blog (click my name) Microsoft has a new site for Windows Mobile - with an interesting concept UI - you can like it or hate it.

And this UI is made by ADOBE FLASH...

So Google doesn't have OS (yet...) so they use yours.

But you do have Silverlight - so why would you use Flash?

Thursday, November 01, 2007 3:01 PM by Yonatan Leonov

# re: Little Details...

Yonatan,

I agree that MS should be held to the same standard...and there are plenty of examples where we fall short, but I wouldn't agree that we can't recognize it in othes and learn from it.

Again, I am not trying to make fun of Google here, I just think it is an example of a little thing (changing the screensaver--no one, or very few, expect their own OS--hopefully, not soon ;-) it's just one thing that sends, I think, the wrong message.

MS needs to avoid the same mistake.

Perhaps it will make us both better.

Good point, though and thanks for the comment!

Thursday, November 01, 2007 4:44 PM by jerman of the board

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