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# And then they all get blown out of the water
- URL: https://werd.io/and-then-they-all-get-blown-out-of-the-water/
- Published: 2005-10-04T16:16:39.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-12T11:01:34.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: General, #ben-684a32da145d7d001be71dae, #Migrated-1749693130536, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-06-11 21:52

This is the big one:

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> The move is expected to be part of a larger technology initiative in which Sun will help Google build a network to provide Web-based applications that will enable the companies to compete with their common rival, Microsoft Corp.  
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> http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,105148,00.html

This has the capacity to change *everything*.

Microsoft will doubtless reply, and the result will be network-based, platform-independent applications that run in a browser. The implications reach into literally every facet of consumer computing. It'll be interesting to watch, and frankly fantastic to see Microsoft's strangehold challenged again ...

**Update:** This *isn't* the big one. It's a toolbar-bundling deal: download Java, you'll download the Google Toolbar. Big yawn.