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New comment by elbowjack65 in "Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search"

elbowjack65 — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 10:20:41 +0000

Is JavaScript is now evil?

New comment by elbowjack65 in "Gitlab Explores Sale"

elbowjack65 — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 10:52:50 +0000

Coincidentally, Google is shutting down Google Source repositories in GCP today. https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories/docs

New comment by elbowjack65 in "Google formally accuses monopolist Microsoft of trapping people in its cloud"

elbowjack65 — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 06:29:11 +0000

Quoting Peter-Waterman1 from the article comment section:

This article barely touches the surface of Microsoft's licencing restrictions on its customers who don't want to use Azure.

1. Putting up SPLA licencing costs (Cloud providers must use SPLA) more than Enterprise licence costs.

2. Preventing Windows BYOL on other Cloud Providers but allowing it on Azure, making their customers have to purchase new Windows licences if they don't want to run on Azure.

3. Preventing Customers from running Office in other Cloud Providers.

4, Changing PaaS SQL licencing so that their customers cant use Passive licencing on secondary nodes, except in Azure

5. Preventing customers from bringing their SQL licences to PaaS Services, other than in Azure.

6. Stopping customers using Terminal Services, except in Azure

7. Charging customers exorbitant fees for supporting the end-of-life software anywhere except in Azure.

8. Stopping Customers using MSDN developer edition copies of Windows etc in any place except Azure

If these allegations are true, Microsoft is being anti-competitive and should be investigated irregardless who filed the complaint them.

New comment by elbowjack65 in "We Didn't Sell GitHub to Google"

elbowjack65 — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 10:17:18 +0000

I remember reading that Diane Greene, then CEO of GCP ,was keen to buy GitHub, but Sundar didn't see the point of owning it. Sundar's argument was supposedly, owning GitHub wouldn't improve the market share of GCP.

Yes, Google was part of the negotiations to purchase GitHub, but there wasn't full commitment for the alphabet CEO.

New comment by elbowjack65 in "Sundar Pichai received $226M compensation, boosted by a triennial stock grant"

elbowjack65 — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 10:54:36 +0000

Moreover, Bing, ChatGPT hasn't even made a dent in Google's search engine market share [0].

[0] https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share

New comment by elbowjack65 in "YouTube’s chaotic rise to world domination"

elbowjack65 — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 15:19:34 +0000

That's not correct.4k is available for free users. https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/17/youtube-ends-the-test-aski...

New comment by elbowjack65 in "PaLM API and MakerSuite"

elbowjack65 — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 09:55:20 +0000

https://cloud.google.com/ai/earlyaccess/join

New comment by elbowjack65 in "Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers"

elbowjack65 — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 11:28:03 +0000

Stay true to the article title, don't editorize to bait readers

New comment by elbowjack65 in "The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Google Allo"

elbowjack65 — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 11:20:29 +0000

The article it not based on concrete numbers or facts besides the author own sentiment. He didn't offer the any stats such as app store downloads, or anything else that uses facts to suggest the new Google pay us a step backwards.

Last time I read the new app was actually doing very well.

1.https://www.pymnts.com/news/mobile-payments/2020/google-pay-...