Going through a couple of old drafts for this blog I noticed one in particular titled “My Decreasing Microsoft Footprint”. I had to chuckle at that one (from around a year ago) based on my technology footprint today. One year ago, I was testing Google Docs, listening to my iPod, utilizing Evernote, Google search etc. Today? Different story… Google Docs never really hooked me, I transitioned to Zune software a few months ago and bought a Zune 30g player, have become a huge proponent of Microsoft OneNote, and managing multiple project with MS Project. That is pretty much a 180 from 365 days ago.
Why make the change? Google Docs never really hooked me. There were a fair number of nice/unique features, but I just couldn’t make the full switch. As for the iPod, I won that in some raffle, so I don’t feel too bad about filing that one away to the back of the drawer. I can’t place my finger on the core reason I never became an iPod fan like the rest of the world. I do know I disliked the technology restrictions iTunes placed on music files. Maybe a lot of that has changed, but it’s too late now. Plus iTunes was never a game changer for me either. I tried the Zune software and it had far better functionality. A colleague would say that’s the contrarian in me.
Now that Microsoft has rolled out Bing, could Google search be far behind the iPod being “shuffled” to the bottom of my technology stack? Bing was just made public today, so I’ve only used it a few times. One search was on a band I’m going to be seeing in a couple of weeks, O.A.R (ofarevolution – great band by the way). In Bing, 10 of the first 10 results were related to the band. In Google, 5 of the first 10 were on the band. Certainly not a scientific analysis, but an intriguing start on perhaps Microsoft’s uptick in Search.
Could an Xbox be far behind in my future? Nah, we just got the Wii a few months ago. But, check back in a year, as Natal may have helped us make that change as well.
Filed under: Innovation, Tech | Tagged: Bing, Microsoft, Zune
