Google apps, a first take (and some other maunderings)
July 1, 2008 at 2:34 pm Leave a comment
I was waiting, to be honest. I have nothing in particular to link this to other than our friend www.google.com which is by now well known. I’ve used Gmail since a little run-in with Charter. I’d been deliberating for about a year on the fact that having an ISP-based web address had implicit vulnerabilities. Like an unanticipated switch. Some ISPs will store e-mail, I’ve heard. If you have web-based business, you can’t afford to have an ISP-based address except as backup. Even if your business isn’t web-based, having that kind of keying (to a specific ISP) is idiotic in this day and age. It’s about on the level of accepting a mobile phone usage plan. Get a pay-as-you-go and accept the limitations, or they’ll eventually get their $200 or whatever. Or pay the money up front. Unfortunately business is out there solely to make a dollar, and honesty (like honor) is a rarity in this country even in personal relations. Pity. We live in a world where “trust” is a synonym for “stupidity”.
Anyway, the apps have one particular surprise. It had been hinted. It looks like this is going to include a (full?) anti-badware suite. That’s a huge step toward a web-based OS and an entirely different approach to information processing. There are inherent dangers (the 1984 model) but those dangers have existed since at least the mid-1960s when random wire-tapping for keywords started. I already had the Open Office suite; I’m finding (using it on my other computer) that I actually like it better than 602Text and my antediluvian Office 97 or whatever. The “AI” doesn’t even drive me crazy.
If I were buying a new computer and it came with a Windows disk, and Windows were installed with crapware…I think I would put the Windows disk in, re-install Windows, get Internet up and install the Google package. Risk-free and Internet just don’t mix. Low risk exists, and this may fill the package at truly minimal expense for the home user.
–Glenn
Entry filed under: computers/tech. Tags: crapware, first take, google apps, new computer, some maundering, windows.
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