Google Reportedly Ditching Windows 1003
Reader awyeah notes a Financial Times report that Google is ditching the use of Windows internally. Some blogs have picked up the FT piece but so far there isn't any other independent reporting of the claim, which is based on comments from anonymous Googlers. One indication of possibly hasty reporting is the note that Google "employs more than 10,000 workers internationally," whereas it's easy enough to find official word that the total exceeds 20,000. "The directive to move to other operating systems began in earnest in January, after Google's Chinese operations were hacked, and could effectively end the use of Windows at Google. ... 'We're not doing any more Windows. It is a security effort,' said one Google employee. ... New hires are now given the option of using Apple's Mac computers or PCs running the Linux operating system. 'Linux is open source and we feel good about it,' said one employee. 'Microsoft we don't feel so good about.' ... Employees wanting to stay on Windows required clearance from 'quite senior levels,' one employee said. 'Getting a new Windows machine now requires CIO approval,' said another employee."
2010... (Score:5, Funny)
The year of Linux on...
Never mind.
Re:Flamebait (Score:5, Funny)
I'm going to fucking kill Google (Score:5, Funny)
Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Google.
Your friend,
Steve Ballmer
Re:MACS???!?! (Score:5, Funny)
Macs are only more susceptible to spearfishing because the monitor and body are one. Ram a spear through that and the whole machine is gone. With most windows machines, spearfishers go for the bright monitor but since the real guts of the machine is in a seperate body, it just requires replacing an ever-cheaper monitor.
RedHat and Apple (Score:5, Funny)
On other news, RedHat announced it does not use Windows on its web servers and Apple announced that no employees use Windows Mobile phones.
Re:Flamebait (Score:5, Funny)
yes, 10,000 extra users is practically doubling their userbase!
Re:MACS???!?! (Score:4, Funny)
That's because the hackers want a Mac, not some lame old Windows box.
Re:IBM is headed that way too (Score:3, Funny)
Wow! Symphony! Now THERE'S a cutting-edge technology! I remember the helicopters buzzing Manhattan in, umm, 1990 something, proclaiming. "We're cool! We're Lotus 1-2-3 in drag because now we incor[orate a word processor and, umm, Visiterm!" Next up: "Munich has disclosed that the entire city is dumping Windows for DOS 6.0"
News at eleven.
Re:Rather late reponse.... (Score:3, Funny)
Update: Apparently it was just Ballmer who ditched use of Google in 2004.
Re:Flamebait (Score:5, Funny)
Re:2010... security maybe (Score:1, Funny)
Actually us googlers don't use traditional network cables anymore.
Ever since we've had the google cloud/brain interfaces installed we
Re:I want to see the long term results of this... (Score:2, Funny)
if you need more proof i am writing to you on a 400 hertz computer
I'm sorry, but the credibility of you as a computer user just went right out the window.
Re:2010... security maybe (Score:3, Funny)
I dunno, I think this whole "internet" thing is kind of overhyped, at this point. It's clearly peaked in the marketplace, and public opinion is already starting to turn against it. This time next year, your precious little Internet darling is gonna be so irrelevant that it'll make Vanilla Ice look like Joel Spolsky.
Re:Flamebait (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Flamebait (Score:1, Funny)
This post is so hilariously wrong in most aspects it should be modded as funny.
Re:I'm going to fucking kill Google (Score:5, Funny)
It looks like you are trying to kill Google.
Would you like help.
* Hire a hitman.
* Begin a smear campaing against them and sue by proxy.
* Dance around the stage getting sweaty.
Re:Flamebait (Score:1, Funny)
Wow - Apple *is* good: Putting Exchange into that form factor took some doing, I bet!
Re:Flamebait (Score:3, Funny)
I read your comment as the only serious thing an iPad is good for is serious constipation , and thought to myself "you're right, I could get one to replace the magazines in my bathroom".
Re:Flamebait (Score:3, Funny)
What exactly do you use it for in the music studio? I can't think of any useful task it could perform.
It sure takes up less room on the mixer than a television.
Re:Flamebait (Score:3, Funny)
Put it face-down and use concave-bottomed cups. iPod/iPad/iPhone users should be used to working around the system...
Re:Skepticism warranted? (Score:3, Funny)
. Folks, when a major newspaper like the FT, WSJ, or New York Times reports something, it's probably true.
Clearly, you didn't get the memo. The New York Times is part of the liberal-biased lamestream media and therefore not to be trusted. Any information read therein should be assumed false until confirmed by Fox News.
Re:Unsurprising (Score:3, Funny)
They keep the polar bears from eating my sandwiches :(
Re:Skepticism warranted? (Score:2, Funny)