@ kona.

There is a difference!  Microsoft HAS a product to sell that I'd find most useful... Windows 7.  However, Google has NO products or services of interest to me, for sale or otherwise... simple as that.

Enuff said!

Orright!  Microsoft doesn't bombard me with unsolicited/unwelcomed ads... Google does/would if I didn't block them.  I hate my web page real estate being taken up by ads... or where they would be, had I not blocked them.

Not only that, I don't get discount on client products and sevices after years of resentfully having to tolerate pesrsitent and annoying Google ads.

I mean, they know everything I say here, least they could do is send me discount coupons.

Now is enuff said???

Nah, my life functions perfectly well without Google... or put another way... Google has nothing I want or need.

I find that a contradiction in terms!  Google is an ad company!  Its primary source of income comes from ads, so why would things have changed?  Google would not cut off its nose (income/revenue) to spite its face (bank balance).

Anyhow *back on topic*, I hope the launch of Windows 7 is the success MS hopes it will be... it simply is the best OS they've ever produced and blows Vista (everything else before it) out of the water.