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Old 10-04-2005, 07:38 AM  
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Google has finally thrown down the gauntlet
http://google-blog.dirson.com/post.new/0285/

Joint news conference today to announce a web based office suite from Google and Sun based on open office. It's long been rumored and speculated upon but it now seems to be a confirmed reality. Go anywhere and with net access you can retrieve and work on your documents.

This should be pretty cool - everybody laughed when Sun said the network is the computer 10+ years ago, but it's looking more and more like reality.
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Old 10-04-2005, 07:44 AM   #2
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Old 10-04-2005, 07:50 AM   #3
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To "throw down the gauntlet," as I'm sure you know, means to challenge someone else to a fight, and our modern use of the phrase is essentially identical to its original meaning. The "gauntlet" in the phrase is the heavy glove once worn by knights in armor (and comes from a diminutive form of "gant," French for "glove"). A knight who threw his gauntlet down before another was issuing a formal challenge to duel, which his opponent then accepted by picking up the gauntlet. While formal duels are now a thing of the past (people seem to pretty much just up and shoot each other these days), "throwing down the gauntlet" lives on in more metaphorically combative contexts, such as courtrooms and proxy fights.

MS has started encroaching on Google's turf by attempting to enter the search engine market. Google has just fired back with an entry into the office suite market.
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Old 10-04-2005, 07:58 AM   #4
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To "throw down the gauntlet," as I'm sure you know, means to challenge someone else to a fight, and our modern use of the phrase is essentially identical to its original meaning. The "gauntlet" in the phrase is the heavy glove once worn by knights in armor (and comes from a diminutive form of "gant," French for "glove"). A knight who threw his gauntlet down before another was issuing a formal challenge to duel, which his opponent then accepted by picking up the gauntlet. While formal duels are now a thing of the past (people seem to pretty much just up and shoot each other these days), "throwing down the gauntlet" lives on in more metaphorically combative contexts, such as courtrooms and proxy fights.

MS has started encroaching on Google's turf by attempting to enter the search engine market. Google has just fired back with an entry into the office suite market.
I know... I just felt like posting a vintage "Gauntlet" pic. Leave me alone.
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Old 10-04-2005, 08:31 AM   #5
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Ain't gonna happen. MS rules the world and that will never change. People think an MS OS is a computer. All alternative office suties copy the functions of MS office suites because they are the only ones the majority know how to use.
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Old 10-04-2005, 09:17 AM   #6
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Well, this ought to really send Gates into a tirade.
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Old 10-04-2005, 10:33 AM   #7
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I know... I just felt like posting a vintage "Gauntlet" pic. Leave me alone.
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Old 10-04-2005, 12:31 PM   #9
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Old 10-04-2005, 04:44 PM   #12
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Ain't gonna happen. MS rules the world and that will never change.
History is filled with fallen empires. It's just a matter of time and question of how they will fall.

However, given their bank accounts and dominating market share, it won't be for a long long time. Quite possibly not until well after Gates is dead.
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Did they let him sleep with the Elf chick as part of his compansation? Also...WTF is Mr. T. doing in Gauntlet? I don't remember that and I played the game a lot. Was it a secret level or something?
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