Letters to the Editor
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Mike J Y Wood
Google doesn't lock you in. Locking you in would mean requiring something like Passport to use it. Or at the least that bothersome idiot 'registration'. Google sells its service not its math. No one gets to see the math under the covers. For Google the user experience is the same whatever you use to come at it with. In the Microsoft world, everything works a little differently or only through Microsoft products. You see a little of this with Apple prods such as iTunes which just don't run as well in Windows as they do natively and that whole AAC encoding issue that crops up. None the less Apple is 1/10th the size of Microsoft.
BTW Microsoft went to Redmond because Bill Gates wanted to live near his parents. No other reason. Microsoft's 1st corporate HQ was in New Mexico