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Google snapping up Microsofts evil?

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Scoble says Google seem to be snapping up the people who did evil at Microsoft ;O)

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The folks who did "evil" stuff at Microsoft (Hailstorm and Smarttags) are now at Google. Remember Hailstorm? It never shipped. Why not? Because we (customers, this was back before I was a Microsoft employee) didn't want to let Microsoft own all of our data.

http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/03/03.html#a9505

Added by Nick:

Windows Veteran Jumps Ship to Google

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A top Windows architect has left his Redmond home to join the ranks at Google, although it's not clear what his new position will involve. Marc Lucovsky, a 16-year Microsoft veteran, joins a number of high profile developers hired by the search giant, including Mozilla programmers Ben Goodger and Darin Fisher.

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Probably

They just want webservice/remoting expertise - just look at the apps they have been doing lately. Funny though all the same, perhaps Google want hailstorm and will end up with "sh'tstorm" instead ;O)

By chrisgarrett at Mar 3 2005 - 16:53

it's quite obvious to me

I'm not going to double-post, so here's the link in stead: msg #8

By claus at Mar 3 2005 - 16:53

now with quote

..sorry i was in a hurry before and just posted a link to another post of mine, here's a brief quote from it:

There's some good food for thought in this 2001 Cnet article about HailStorm. Replace "Microsoft Passport" with "Google login" and you'll get the hint - it's not about an OS; basically it's a single sign-on system allowing different applications to exchange personal data (like, say, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, Desktop Search, Cellphones, whathavewe...).

By claus at Mar 3 2005 - 21:30