Google & Microsoft

re: Google & Microsoft

Colm Brophy — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:39:22 GMT

Well software is slowly migrating to the internet (even Microsoft software) so being an internet "software company" is no bad thing.

Also Microsoft would love to have an internet business that could compete with Google. Wasn't that what Big Steve was all about last MIX keynote?

re: Google & Microsoft

Rich — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:52:06 GMT

Does the Binary say anything? I can't copy it from image to translate it online!

re: Google & Microsoft

steve clayton — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:55:10 GMT

Rich - I've been tempted to translate the binary a few times but always thought it probably doesn't. be my guest :)

re: Google & Microsoft

steve clayton — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:00:25 GMT

I'm not saying either is right or wrong Colm :)

just an interesting juxtaposition of the two companies and the way they think....I think.

you can read it many ways which is often the beauty of Hugh's cartoons. you could for example say that Google is looking to become more of an enterprise software comany (GAPE) whilst Microsoft is a sofwtare company that is extending it's apps to the Internet but remains a software driven company vs. an Internet advertising driven business. again, neither are right or wrong...more observational.

please don't interpret the fact I work for MSFT as me bashing Google every time I write about them :)

re: Google & Microsoft

northerngeek — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:14:09 GMT

Here's the string of binary:

1101100111000111010011100111011000011110111011100

0011000111000011011110000111100111110001111001

10010011101111000111110111110110001101100011110001

11100011110011110000111000011111100111100111110101011

001110001110110010111011100011101101011110

And apparently it says:

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Wanted to try my new handwriting recognition software out anyway :-)