Tomorrow Google will announce a new commercial video download service.

In related news Google will also take the wraps off of "Google Pack," a bundle of applications that will be made available for download in a single installation bundle.

Also, I heard a low cost PC is coming.

WTF?

"The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that the search firm plans to unveil its Google Pack of software that will include Adobe Reader, Lavasoft's Ad-Aware, RealNetworks' RealPlayer, Symantec anti-virus software and instant messaging software from Trillian."

Won't Ad-aware instantly uninstall RealPlayer?

Philo

AND A NEW STUDY SUGGESTS THE TOTAL SUBSIDIZED COST OF THE GOOGLE JAVA PC WILL BE _ONE_ _TRILLION_ _DOLLARS_.

You aren't winning troll of the minute award, let alone week or year.

So you *like* RealPlayer? I believe it's a repeat winner of "crap software of the thread" award on both JOS and OT.

Philo

I thought it was interesting. I guess you are not interested in downloading video over the internet.

No, you beat me to the "OK" button, I was replying to Kasey, not you.

Gotcha, thanks.

>>> I thought it was interesting.

WELL, YOU WERE WRONG.

Hi, I'm Ward Bush and I'm bad at everything. But especially humor and picking fights.

BTW, how does Google installing a bunch of Windows-only client software support the idea that they're going for a thin-client PC?

Philo

Realplayer and Adobe?

That would suck.

The lovechild of a Real-Adobe marrige would be an image viewer that takes 30 minuets to start, 30 minutes to buffer the image before it shows, and can't be shut down or uninstalled.


(Kind of reminds me of ms word, come to think of it.)

Realplayer and Adobe?

So much for "do no evil"

The Google Pack will have:

Firefox
A version of Norton AntiVirus
Adobe Reader
RealPlayer
Trillian
Ad-Aware
Google Desktop Search
Google Earth
Picasa
Google Talk
Google Toolbar
[Google?] screensaver

I call it the anti-Microsoft Pack:

Internet Explorer
Windows OneCare Live
Metro?
Windows Media Player
Windows Live Messenger
Windows Defender
Windows Desktop Search
Windows Live Local
Windows Vista Photo Gallery
Windows Live Messenger, again
MSN Search Toolbar

Most of Microsoft’s products are better, and at least all of Microsoft’s products are from Microsoft!

"The lovechild of a Real-Adobe marrige would be an image viewer that takes 30 minuets to start, 30 minutes to buffer the image before it shows, and can't be shut down or uninstalled."

Hehehe. You haven't actually worked with Acrobat (not reader), have you? They don't need Real, they have all the expertise they need. :)

Anyway, throw out SurrealPlayer and replace it with VLC, then we'll talk.

"Anyway, throw out SurrealPlayer and replace it with VLC, then we'll talk."

As the Google Video Player is largely based on VLC, RealPlayer seems an odd choice. Of course this whole thing may be all a load of speculative BS anyway...

Strikes me this is mens room gossip in some casino in Vegas.

During Comdex my boss and I would occasionally require the gents at the same time and he had this habit of saying in a loud voice, 'Y'know I hear that Billy boy Gates has Aids', pause, 'well he ain't got no gurlfren'. Know what I mean?'

This was before wife and children of course.

It was his fond hope that he'd hear the same rumour repeated back to him in some other mens room and he could nod sagely and say 'Yeah, I heard that'.

There's something about Vegas. Brings out the worst in people.