Friday, March 23, 2007

A question of small or big

I just have one small question running in my mind since long...why do you hate MS and Yahoo!....just cause they are big??? just cause we are bored with what they are giving us right now?? just cause our empathy, sympathy and all the related feelings are with the supposed strugglers and smaller fishes like Google???
Lets ponder over it for a moment...look at the history of any big company in this world...they haven't been made big overnight, there was a time when even these companies were strugglers, they broke all the conventions and gave the consumers something new and bring about a revolution in the world...Don't you think Google is in a similar phase right now?? I guess we shud give the other 2 companies some credit too...what say guys and gals????

6 comments:

Adi said...

You got everything but the names right.

MS? Don't hate per se. Their products? yes!!

Yahoo? I liked them, no change so far

GOOG? They r not small any longer...

Anonymous said...

We love products and not companies. YouTube (although now a part of google) was/is more famous than Google Videos. Yahoo groups is more famous than Google Groups. Deli.cio.us and digg are not google products, nor are facebook and myspace.

Oracle, SAP, Adobe are big companies with great products. We love them (solely b'coz of their products).

vikrant said...

I do hate company MS,because they don't want the knowledge with world, Let me prove my point, whenever your system hangs which is using MS, you go on restarting or clam might be virus infected (not sure of things) because you don't have idea how things are working.where as the open source company ( i don't thing they are small, might w.r.t money) but they are genious. Yahoo, i love the facility provided by them i do you there product, i didn't hate them but functionality wise there are some better companies. for example if you start search for a single term out of ten search you will find 3 diffences with yahoo whereas similar problem is not observed in google.

Piyush said...

Again people love observing. Be it wrestling, Hollywood or any IT company. No idea how hate has come into existence?

Yes MS has been little hated for some ethical reasons. If you read something about Treacherous computing, this will make little clear as this is one recent issues.
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=5858

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html

RM Stallman has brought some difinitive good views in front, which makes MS actually vulnerable in future.

Else MS-Y!-Google are just observed down from a competition point of view. How did you feel that this has got something to do with hate?

Anonymous said...

We most of us have MS/Yahoo not mearly beacuse they are big, but more of because they dont like to see others to become big. eg. MS creating problems for java on windows platform, yahoo's strategies against google. look at google it is not coming in the way of anyone else. it is not stopping others from becoming big. Infact if it sees something which is something which it likes, then it is joining hands with it rather then fighting it. It is moving towards a greater benefit of the community and not mearly filling up its own pockets.

CeeYem said...

Hi,
I have reasons not to like Microsoft. But i have many more reasons to like Microsoft and its products. I see a lot of us using Microsoft products day and night and blaiming them for the imperfections found. And we find them for we used the products to that extent.

I am not against any of the companies or products and i do use many of them.

But i am sure many a times Microsoft does not deserve the blaims especially when the users are free to move to other products and services.