• 0 Posts
  • 7 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: April 16th, 2025
  • Babalugats@feddit.uktoTechnology@lemmy.world•Denmark has abandoned plans to ditch Microsoft Office after technical problemsEnglish
    30·
    5 days ago

    Back in 2025, the government of Denmark announced that it is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office in favor of open-source alternatives like Linux.

    Denmark’s reasoning was that it wants to reduce reliance on a U.S. vendor like Microsoft and also not be at the mercy of a volatile Trump administration. Now, it appears that the country has failed in its ambitious endeavor.

    Adoption of this European software would have been an important step in Denmark’s bid for technological independence from software made by a U.S. firm.

    A pilot phase with 38 ministry employees kicked off last year to trial Collabora’s suite with Office documents. However, this trial was terminated when elections took place earlier this year. A spokesperson confirmed that the experiment had concluded, and would not resume again. They also confirmed that no evaluation benchmarking Collabora’s performance against Microsoft Office had taken place either.

    Microsoft must have truly been shitting it. 38 whole people trying out other software.

    I mean how hard would it have been for Microsoft to just pay a few of those 38 if any of them had been taking it seriously to begin with.

    No benchmarking, and the attempt at switching ended with the elections.

    Could it even have been called an attempt?

  • Babalugats@feddit.uktoTechnology@lemmy.world•Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"English
    31·
    20 days ago

    What on earth is this link supposed to show? Did you just expect that nobody would check it?

    You quoted the relevant part:

    In August 1998, Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote Larry and Sergey a check for $100,000, and Google Inc. was officially born.

    Ok.

    Never was it mentioned that anyone was distinguishing between Google search and Yandex search as opposed to Google and Yandex.

    But even then.

    Yandex was devised first, was named first and was officially launched first (‘born’ first).

    Yandex.ru search engine was announced by CompTek on 23 September 1997 at the Softool exhibition, although some developments in the field of search (Bible indexing, searching for documents on CD-ROM, site search, Classifier of Goods and Services, and the International Classifier of Patents. ) were carried out by the company as early as 1990.

    Google did not launch in 1997, because they were not ready to launch. They had to wait almost another year to be (by their own words) “born”.

    There is no two ways about this. Yandex (with the exception of the domain name registration) precedes Google, in most cases by years.

  • Babalugats@feddit.uktoTechnology@lemmy.world•Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"English
    103·
    20 days ago

    Triple and quadruple nope.

    It was believed (conspiracy or otherwise) for many years, that google had stolen ideas from yandex they were that much behind them with similar ideas.

    HoG

    • Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin[41][27][42] with additional contribution from Scott Hassan
    • Google has its origins in BackRub, a research project started in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford, California.
    • The two had first met in the summer of 1995, when Page was part of a group of potential new students that Brin had volunteered to give a tour around the campus and nearby San Francisco.

    HoY

    • In 1990, Arkady Volozh contacted Ilya Segalovich (1964–2013), a friend of his from high school, to join his venture developing algorithms to search Russian texts.[9] They developed search software together under the company name Arcadia.
    • In 1993, they invented the name “Yandex” as an easy way to remember “Yet Another iNDEXer”.[11] This is also a bilingual pun on “index” since “Я” (“ya”) means “I” in Russian.
    • On 23 September 1997, the Yandex.ru search engine was launched and presented at the Softool exhibition in Moscow. (It expired 10 days ago on Sep 30, 2026)

    You are comparing bananas and tomatoes. Yandex LLC was registered in 2000, however, Yandex existed long before Brin and Page had even met. In 1997 Brin and Page only registered the domain because they wanted to secure it, but they were not ready to launch until 1998. The lesser demanded .ru TLD didn’t require such panic, nor was it likely that somebody would steal that domain as yandex was their made up word. (Brin and Page registered ‘google’ thinking that they were registering ‘googol’ an already existing word.)

    Active functioning search engine website “OFFICIAL LAUNCHES” - Google: August 1998 Yandex: 23 September 1997

    Edit: And to clarify, I think the sensible metric here, that works in Yandex’s Googles favour by bringing the two within eight days of each other instead of approximately two years, is to use the date their search engine websites launched and were functioning, not when they filed paperwork that said “We’re legally a company now 🥳”.

    Yes. You said the last bit with the wrong name. Yandex was officially launched and functioning almost a year before google. Yandex the name had come into existence two years before Page and Brin had even met. Arcadia (Yandex precursor) was 5 years before Backrub (Google precursor).