Imagine how different the world might be today if yahoo had bought google and tanked the fuck out of it. The whole modern web would be different. Perhaps the social media era would have never come to pass.
Microsoft isnt well known for their innovative products, they usually reiterate on the same concepts. Every time they try something different they fuck up big time, hence the old windows meme of every second release being bullshit like win ME or win8, and now win 11.
I think if they had tried a similar product without google to emulate it wouldn’t have been such a world changing tool that is essentially the operating system of the internet for most users.
We wouldn’t even really have the web ecosystem and capable browsers if Microsoft had their way. They pretty much created IE to try to stop web apps from happening.
If not them, then someone else would have taken the mantle. Judgment Day always arrives, WWIII/Eugenics Wars will still happen… it just gets delayed in some timelines.
This is actually the good timeline. People hate google for their unsavory shit nowadays, BUT!
They actually had a very positive and important role in advancement of open source and open platforms. Chrome itself became dominant because at the time it was better.
Without google we would have an even worse situation
Imagine how different the world might be today if yahoo had bought google and tanked the fuck out of it. The whole modern web would be different. Perhaps the social media era would have never come to pass.
Bing would just have arrived earlier and taken over the search space.
Microsoft isnt well known for their innovative products, they usually reiterate on the same concepts. Every time they try something different they fuck up big time, hence the old windows meme of every second release being bullshit like win ME or win8, and now win 11.
I think if they had tried a similar product without google to emulate it wouldn’t have been such a world changing tool that is essentially the operating system of the internet for most users.
We wouldn’t even really have the web ecosystem and capable browsers if Microsoft had their way. They pretty much created IE to try to stop web apps from happening.
If not them, then someone else would have taken the mantle. Judgment Day always arrives, WWIII/Eugenics Wars will still happen… it just gets delayed in some timelines.
This is actually the good timeline. People hate google for their unsavory shit nowadays, BUT!
They actually had a very positive and important role in advancement of open source and open platforms. Chrome itself became dominant because at the time it was better.
Without google we would have an even worse situation