Blogcritics Comments on Microsoft and Bill Gates Play Catch Up

Comment by bliffle on Microsoft and Bill Gates Play Catch Up

Wed, 2 Apr 2008 19:44:36 EDT

People who embrace Microsoft products (or any other proprietary software) must be aware that MSFT might pull the plug on them at any time. Go open software. Go linux.

Comment by Jamison on Microsoft and Bill Gates Play Catch Up

Fri, 7 Mar 2008 08:29:14 EST

Actually, Google has wonderful support for even their FREE software like Apps and Gmail. Their group forums are moderated by Google employees and answers are loads faster than waiting on hold for Microsoft. Have you ever tried to call Microsoft with a problem? I have. No, I am not a HUGE company. We have 300 computers and 7 servers, all Running a current version of Windows. After extreme hold times, rather than hear the rep say "Sounds like we need to issue a fix for that" they robotically say "It is not Microsofts issue, please see your other software vedors." It is almost to the point of comical.

Comment by Peter on Microsoft and Bill Gates Play Catch Up

Thu, 6 Mar 2008 23:23:13 EST

Who says Google is such a paradigm of computer democracy and everything good. Should you not be worried about handling over your mission critical email functions without significant support? You need a voice at the other end of the line when problems happen. Hope Microsoft can rise to occasion like some of its Gold Certified Partners that are currently reselling hosted messaging and collaboration services such as private label Exchange Server 2007 and private label SharePoint 3.0. They have an interesting take on all this that you should look at.

Comment by Jamison on Microsoft and Bill Gates Play Catch Up

Thu, 6 Mar 2008 21:02:58 EST

HAHA! Was meant to be generic, but feel free to link :) thanks for reading!

Comment by Bob Andelman on Microsoft and Bill Gates Play Catch Up

Thu, 6 Mar 2008 20:39:43 EST

Thanks for mentioning "Mr. Media," but do you mind if I add the link? Just in case Microsoft or Google wants to get in touch, of course! Bob Andelman