Microsoft challengers

I like that Google is pushing more and more for world dominance.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google Inc. took a step toward
challenging Microsoft Corp.'s dominance in computer word-processing and spreadsheets with the announcement Tuesday of a software collaboration agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc. The move — as well as future plans in which both
companies will distribute each other's software — could let Google create or offer programs that would take on Microsoft Corp.'s industry-leading Office suite.

Reminds me of a time when I did work for the Sun Microsystems office here in SG, back when I worked with the marketing consultancy. Man, it was a bitch to correspond with my clients. Sun is so anti-Microsoft that staff do not use MS Office. They used something called StarOffice, if I remember correctly.

My clients had to convert reports and documents sent them. I remember they worked so hard on regional events that I had to print my emails and docs and have'em faxed to them. Which is ok - clients wishes were my commands, eh? But man, what a bitch when you're squeezing 24 hours of work into a 15 hour day.....


Still, good times. Tech industry can be incredibly stimulating!