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11 Oct 2024 07:14:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Micrsoft trying to buy Yahoo!  
From: nemesis
Date: 10 Feb 2008 11:30:01
Message: <web.47af260f4d3a639348af2500@news.povray.org>
Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailisthebestcom> wrote:
> Gilles Tran escribió:
> > (by the way, I was always intrigued by the fact that a lot of Google
> > services are in perpetual beta. A regular IT company would suffer from this
> > (see what delaying Vista costed Microsoft), but Google, as an advertising
> > company, obviously uses the betas as testbeds for datamining ideas, and
> > drops them if they fail to generate ad revenue, direct or indirect).
>
> Perpetual beta is a "feature" of Web 2.0. (Whatever that means)

beta or not, I've never experienced crashes or much bugs with GMail (+Firefox)
or GoogleEarth as I have with M$oftware...


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