Does anyone else miss Microsoft?
Say what you want about their business practises, you never found this in Internet Explorer’s EULA:
You retain copyright and any other rights that you already hold in Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content, you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. This licence is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.
Due to massive pressure Google have now removed this. But how anyone can make the claim that Google aren’t just as much a faceless evil corporation as anyone else these days is beyond me.
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September 9th, 2008 at 1:06 am
Point well made, but have they ruined and subverted the whole IT industry such that cash machines, checkouts, and even the Chinese Olympic Opening Ceremony are dogged by a BSOD errors?
:p
September 9th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
I agree however it’s worth noting that it is a) the nature of Windows, Windows will work on pretty much anything. Having one OS run on pretty much any platform is mental, of course there are going to be problems.
And b) I’ve seen little evidence anyone else can do better. Due to Microsoft’s dominance we don’t really have a benchmark for how well an OS should work on this amount of various platforms and situations. Maybe they are actually doing really well. How many hardware configurations can OS X deal with?