Okay, so the title may be a little misleading but I thought this was funny and sad. I just read Walter Mossberg’s column (subscription required) in the Wall Street Journal which talks about FolderShare which Microsoft recently acquired. In a nutshell, FolderShare is a peer-to-peer application that allows you to share files securely with a group of folks on either Windows machines or Macs. So I thought I would check it out since it may help me manage a bunch of files that I need for a team project at school. I installed it and started to go through setting it up when I see this page (picture touched up to protect my account info but otherwise this is an accurate reflection of this page):
Huh?!? I know the acquisition of FolderShare was just announced back on November 3, 2005 but given Microsoft’s past issues with Google, I would have thought that pulling this would have been job #1.
All I know is, Google is pure evil.
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