Saravanan Sahadevan

I was wondering if I could titled this post “Microsoft Dilemma” instead. Why must I state Vista is going down ? Well its pretty obvious at this moment why I would say such a thing.

The whole blogosphere since the release of “Vista” has been flooded by critics and complaints that is sufficient enough for anyone to say that the latest release of Microsoft is not doing well at all.

Of course, most PC’s systems like Dell are pushing Vista and companies like Alienware promote their performance ready systems for DirectX 10 and so on. There is of course sales and Microsoft makes tons of cash.

But if you were to look at the whole picture, 3 out of 5 people weekly in an average are so called “adopting” to Apple. One of them was myself to say. I was actually planning to move to Vista but as I was just procrastinating my purchase during the early stages. I was amazed on the amount of bugs and the lack of features as in things you could do on XP could not be done on Vista anymore. I strictly changed my mind.

Of course I’m not one in a million. Many people out there would have done the same thing. Ok moving to on to the big picture. Vista is flopping. At the same time, Microsoft Office is becoming irrelevant as Google Docs catches up. As well they(Microsoft) have lost tons of money in the recent E.U fine. So what about Microsoft’s future? 

Thats why the whole Yahoo picture comes in. The only way to survive in any sort of fall, is to have Yahoo in their hands. The way I see it, thats the main reason why Microsoft is going all out on acquiring Yahoo. So does that conclude to Microsoft “dead” if they don’t get Yahoo? I leave this unanswered.

Well Im not the only one who thinks so. According to a TechCrunch post, Gartner analysts Michael Silver and Neil MacDonald said something similar too. 

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Interesting enough, we have been seeing some of the weirdest moments in the technology industry recently. Just as Microsoft-Yahoo issues are roaming around the corner, we have a new entry to swirl things a bit more.

Yahoo & Google at in a state of “testing waters” on jointly sharing advertisement spaces. The test is however not permanent according to both sources. If things are positive in test results, I believe its the time where the markets gets less competitive. That is when we would see a new shift in the market, perhaps worsening current situations.

Industry analyst say that this sort of moves are in nature to frustrate Microsoft. Microsoft currently are in rumors to be jointly bidding with News Corp for Yahoo at a higher price.

Report from BBC says that Microsoft strongly crticised this test venture of Google-Yahoo.

Microsoft criticised Yahoo’s advertising trial with Google, saying any lasting deal would not be in the consumers’ interests.

“Any definitive agreement between Yahoo and Google would consolidate over 90% of the search advertising market in Google’s hands. This would make the market far less competitive,” Brad Smith, Microsoft’s General Counsel said.

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Few minutes ago , Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch posted about Google’s Solutions Markeplace.

Whats Google’s Solutions Market Place ?

The Google Solutions Marketplace links customers to vendors whose solutions integrate and extend Google’s communication, collaboration, and enterprise search products.

Well basically, there is a saying “One stone, two mangoes”. Works well with Google !

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The recent release of Google App Engine allows developers to just do more with service API’s for Google accounts. 

There’s no doubt of seeing more and more great apps coming out every day/week/month/year.

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As the Campfire one is over, Google official announced their new engine called the “Google App Engine” App Engine allows developers to easily create and mantaine applications. There will no server headaches etc.

All you have to do is build the app and upload it to appspot.com domain for free. A free account can be used up to 500MB of storage and enough bandwidth for about 5 milion page views a month. The App engine in near future will be providing additional resources for fixed price.

Some Key Features of the App Engine is the Application Environment :

• dynamic web serving, with full support for common web technologies
• persistent storage with queries, sorting and transactions
• automatic scaling and load balancing
• APIs for authenticating users and sending email using Google Accounts
• a fully featured local development environment that simulates Google App Engine on your computer

The App Engine Runtime Environment in coded on Python version 2.5.2. The Engine as well include service API for integrating applications created with Google Accounts.

As every good things have limitations, TechCrunch has listed out some limitations currently faced on Google App Engine.

The service is launching in beta and has a number of limitations.
First, only the first 10,000 developers to sign up for the beta will be allowed to deploy applications.
The service is completely free during the beta period, but there are ceilings on usage. Applications cannot use more than 500 MB of total storage, 200 million megacycles/day CPU time, and 10 GB bandwidth (both ways) per day. We’re told this equates to about 5M pageviews/mo for the typical web app. After the beta period, those ceilings will be removed, but developers will need to pay for any overage. Google has not yet set pricing for the service.
One current limitation is a requirement that applications be written in Python, a popular scripting language for building modern web apps (Ruby and PHP are among others widely used). Google says that Python is just the first supported language, and that the entire infrastructure is designed to be language neutral. Google’s initial focus on Python makes sense because they use Python internally as their scripting language

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Google is reported by TechCrunch to host their second developer events called “Campfire One”. It is said that Google is promising to unveil one of their new technology that would anchor in the net market.

As buzzed about, we hear that this services would anchor most of the other services offered by Competitors such as Amazon and so. Possibilities of a new internal database system ? 

Previously Google had previously given some press briefings regarding their launch of the Big Tables. I believe this would be it.

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