>>We'll have the $100 MIT handcrank laptops with a basic MS operating system, and Google for everything else. Soon Google will be yer ISP (free wi-fi)
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>My thesis is that Google will be your WSP, which includes the duties of your current ISP (among other things).
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>So I will have to agree with you.
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>>and sooner or later they'll get into opensource solutions too....and who knows???...maybe they'll make an OS someday too. As it stands now...Google is the only biz that has a chance to knock Micro$oft off the pedistal.
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>Google is the only biz that has the chance to change the industry by becoming a WSP. Microsoft (and AOL, and Yahoo, and Apple) will follow. I assure you.
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>The only change for Microsoft is that they'll become a direct competitor of Google, as an entirely new type of business. I've called that business WSPs.

I think Google will end up being the 'big one' - as they are the ones with all the information and data.