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Which of these companies could you least live without?

View Poll Results: If I had to choose one to keep/use exclusively it would be ...

Apple

45 10.16%

Facebook

34 7.67%

Google

170 38.37%

Microsoft

194 43.79%

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08-10-2010 , 12:11 AM

#101

dlk9s

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Microsoft.

I don't have any Apple products and don't use Facebook (though I'd have to start playing Scrabble with my wife if she couldn't Wordscraper and Lexulous). As for Google, there are replacements for their stuff.

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08-10-2010 , 12:38 AM

#102

EmpressNina

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Originally Posted by Maso777

I agree google is the best search engine, and the one I use, but I could just as easily use yahoo or about 1000 other sites. Microsoft on the other hand makes a lot of software & has a decent O/S. Even my mouse is from Microsoft.

As a person who has made a living through internet research, Google isn't the same as any other search engine and it never has been. There's a reason it's so ubiquitous - the algorithm it uses changed the search game entirely when it came out, and it continues to improve.

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08-10-2010 , 01:17 AM

#103

dknightx

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Originally Posted by EmpressNina

looking at "search quality" scores, google is still a ways ahead of bing, but bing is actually doing pretty good and is at quality scores that google was at a few years ago, so they are making progress.

now if you have to use a search engine *other* than google or bing, well, you should give it a try and see how that goes. Not to mention, gmail/hotmail, google maps/bing maps, google docs/office online, etc.

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08-10-2010 , 01:33 AM

#104

EmpressNina

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Originally Posted by dknightx

Exactly! I ain't everybody, but I could do everything I need to do with a Linux OS netbook and Google. In fact, I ought to do that next time - hella cheap.

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08-10-2010 , 11:17 AM

#105

Micturition Man

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Originally Posted by PolvoPelusa

shocked that this is even close...figured it would be google by a long shot

+1

All MS applications I'm aware of are perfectly fungible, including in most cases completely free alternatives.

If we assume that the void left by Google can't be filled by other companies stealing its intellectual property then Google is kind of irreplaceable. It just excels in so many of services far beyond the competition.

Plus I think we can pretty confidently predict some future big things from Google that would not be pulled off by any of the existing competitors.

Actually the 360 + Xbox Live is the most "irreplaceable" thing MS produces imo.

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08-10-2010 , 02:59 PM

#106

pharreal_87

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FB easily.

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08-10-2010 , 03:22 PM

#107

dkgojackets

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Microsoft imo. Xbox live is the nuts

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08-10-2010 , 03:26 PM

#108

clout

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If you didn't have facebook, you wouldn't be able to feed your friends' virtual farm animals and your friends would come and kill you while you were sleeping.

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08-10-2010 , 04:11 PM

#109

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Oh, another reason for Microsoft: .NET framework

I may be overestimating the amount of people this has an impact on since this is OOT and all, but Hold'Em Manager is written for .NET.

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08-10-2010 , 07:48 PM

#110

knotfan1234

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If you didn't have facebook, you wouldn't be able to feed your friends' virtual farm animals and your friends would come and kill you while you were sleeping.

not if i killed myself first

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08-10-2010 , 10:50 PM

#111

Mcbrag

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Originally Posted by Dids

GOD DAMMIT NOW I VOTED FOR THE WRONG ONE.

The people who aren't me who voted for facebook should all be banned from the internet.

I totally misread the poorly worded question and would like an exemption from this banning you recommend.

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08-11-2010 , 06:41 AM

#112

vixticator

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Should have left microsoft off the pole imo

Although I guess most of those answers would ship over to google. Or maybe Fly is right even though FB personally has nothing to do with my life atm.

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08-11-2010 , 09:33 AM

#113

Suitedbut

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Apple for work, but damn no gmail/google would be painful.

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08-11-2010 , 09:47 AM

#114

FlyWf

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Originally Posted by goofyballer

Oh, another reason for Microsoft: .NET framework

I may be overestimating the amount of people this has an impact on since this is OOT and all, but Hold'Em Manager is written for .NET.

Once we get to that level, some of Chrome's architecture has some connection to Safari and thus Apple. I have no idea what Facebook is built on, nor do I know what Gchat's lineage looks like, or whatever. I think we have to keep this to branded retail products. Do I have to pick Microsoft to continue to be able to use ActiveX? Apple and Microsoft probably have all sorts of random patents for all sorts of stuff, for all I know my car will stop working if I pick Google.

I still think it's Facebook.

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08-11-2010 , 01:37 PM

#115

Freakin

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Originally Posted by Micturition Man

What OS are you planning on running these free alternatives on?

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08-11-2010 , 02:24 PM

#116

Khaos4k

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What OS are you planning on running these free alternatives on?

Linux, obviously. There are plenty of Microsoft haters who already do this.

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08-11-2010 , 02:59 PM

#117

Freakin

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Are there any linux poker clients? Using Wine doesn't count.

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08-11-2010 , 03:06 PM

#118

JayTeeMe

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5 Years ago facebook was how you communicated with your college friends and myspace was how you communicated with your townie and work friends. Why couldn't we go back to myspace?

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08-11-2010 , 03:11 PM

#119

PolvoPelusa

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Whoever mentioned cisco has an excellent point. Although, I believe google has been using/building their own proprietary hardware quite a while now.

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Originally Posted by Maso777

if you only see google as a search engine then you will surely not choose it above the others.

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Originally Posted by Freakin

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Originally Posted by Micturition Man

What OS are you planning on running these free alternatives on?

Personal Use?
Have you tried using Ubuntu recently? I put it [10.04] on my parent's computer recently and they haven't the slightest clue that its not an MS product...email/internet...check/check.

Work Environment?
Any OS that can run a browser (any browser) is all that will be necessary (cloud computing is the future).

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08-12-2010 , 12:27 AM

#120

jjshabado

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Originally Posted by Freakin

Are there any linux poker clients? Using Wine doesn't count.

Why doesn't it count? It has nothing to do with Microsoft, right?

I'm also not sure why the .NET framework is a big deal. If you're not allowed to use Windows products - not being able to use the .NET framework isn't that painful either.

I also think it's fair to say that you can use products produced by people using the companies products for development type purposes. For example if somebody gives up Google I would expect them to still be able to use an ISP that happened to use Google DNS.

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08-12-2010 , 12:33 AM

#121

wathappened

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microsoft imo

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08-12-2010 , 03:15 AM

#122

PITTM

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This is actually a pretty tough question. Facebook is obv last. I agree with guy who said MS's most irreplaceable product is 360+live. I would actually say Apple. Their products are the company I would least trust someone else to replace. Google 2nd.

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08-12-2010 , 10:31 AM

#123

JayTeeMe

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Well, it's a different question if you talk about the company totally disappearing vs you just not being able to use their products (ie there isn't a huge rush of replacements streaming in).

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08-13-2010 , 06:09 PM

#124

wax42

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My relatively uninformed opinion is that Google search is the #1 search engine because nobody else can make anything as good, whereas Microsoft, Apple, and FB's #1 products are only at #1 because they did something that others could also do but they just did it first or marketed it better. So I picked Google.

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08-13-2010 , 08:45 PM

#125

HajiShirazu

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Microsoft has really come on strong as of late. I've had nothing but great experiences with Vista and XP. All the macs I have used have been buggy as hell.

The 360 is an incredible product but PS3 is probably not much worse.

Google and Facebook are cool but there are things out there 95% as good. Apple, I don't get at all but other people like blowing their money on that crap.

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