Microsoft Press Releases: Losing Relevance?
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Why did this story on Google storage changes get more press than all recent Microsoft product news, combined?
Especially as Microsoft just released news of the first major update of the Windows 2003 Server family. The Windows Server update is already available on MS.com, yet the Google storage update won't really change the landscape for anyone who uses GMail. In fact, the Scobe writes that 2 gigs is just a blip in the blogosphere.
As some gal named Karen Mahon, from Yahoo, said: "For many e-mail users, anything beyond one gigabyte is just a number." In short, it's a relatively negligible change by Google.
So in light of the reality that Web-based storage is meaningless, it seems just another sign of Microsoft's increasing irrelevance in the current software world that the NY Times featured this story instead of any Microsoft product release.
Why did this story on Google storage changes get more press than all recent Microsoft product news, combined?
Especially as Microsoft just released news of the first major update of the Windows 2003 Server family. The Windows Server update is already available on MS.com, yet the Google storage update won't really change the landscape for anyone who uses GMail. In fact, the Scobe writes that 2 gigs is just a blip in the blogosphere.
As some gal named Karen Mahon, from Yahoo, said: "For many e-mail users, anything beyond one gigabyte is just a number." In short, it's a relatively negligible change by Google.
So in light of the reality that Web-based storage is meaningless, it seems just another sign of Microsoft's increasing irrelevance in the current software world that the NY Times featured this story instead of any Microsoft product release.
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