Robert “Bobby” Scoble is usually a cool dude DESPITE working for Microsoft. Well, that’s unfair as there are lots of cool people working for Microsoft – we don’t normally get to meet them though. In todays post he misses the point. It’s not that there’s special love for Google, there’s just an article how universities are outsourcing their student email service to Google. Of course this is an attack on Exchange/Outlook right on the front lines.
And no, when MSN is the recipient of such outsourcing it’s not really an attack on Outlook because DUH, they’re owned by the same company. Plus Google is working with TWENTY universities as opposed to your ONE. So there’s TWO reasons why it’s news.
Compare:
One university ditches Microsoft Outlook for Microsoft’s MSN.
Twenty universities ditch Microsoft Outlook for Google GMail.
Bobby turns it into a “pro-google” conspiracy in the blogosphere. Hey Bob, that’s called Paranoid Schizophrenia.
I notice in the comments that everyone brings up the “Google Censorship in China” and the “Google gives personal details to the Us government” memes. Of course Microsoft would never do this. Oh hang on….they didn’t even TRY to resist the latter and I know they’ve bent over backwards to deal with the Chinese government in the past, even censoring their own dictionary!
The whole blog post reads like a playground whine “Why does nobody like me?” Rants like that are NOT going to make people feel the Microsoft love. I much prefer it when you’re telling us about the cool things you see every day in work rather than how hard up you are because Google gets a good headline.
PS. Sorry about the “Bobby” remark but I’m trying really hard to be a pundit LOL