Matt Cutts 30 day challenge for October: No Microsoft Software
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Re: Matt Cutts 30 day challenge for October: No Microsoft Software
#2Challenge for November: No Google Software.
That's where I'd have trouble.
Re: Matt Cutts 30 day challenge for October: No Microsoft Software
#3Challenge for November: No Google Software. That's where I'd have trouble.
second that. Microsoft only during compatibility testing.
Google search, I'd hate to count how many times every day.
Other than that, analytics and adsense.
Re: Matt Cutts 30 day challenge for October: No Microsoft Software
#4That's kindof like trying to quit smoking cold turkey. It's killing you, and you know it, but you still have to make the transition gradually.
Re: Matt Cutts 30 day challenge for October: No Microsoft Software
#5Challenge for November: No Google Software. That's where I'd have trouble.
second that. Microsoft only during compatibility testing. Google search, I'd hate to count how many times every day. Other than that, analytics and adsense.
AdSense is a toughie.
Yahoo has a competitive analytics package (http://web.analytics.yahoo.com/), and really, Bing results are generally just fine. Sure, it'd be harder, but that's the point of the experiment.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
second that. Microsoft only during compatibility testing. Google search, I'd hate to count how many times every day. Other than that, analytics and adsense.
AdSense is a toughie. Yahoo has a competitive analytics package ( http://web.analytics.yahoo.com/ ), and really, Bing results are generally just fine. Sure, it'd be harder , but that's the point of the experiment.
That's why I try to keep our dependence on adsense to a minimum.
Re: Matt Cutts 30 day challenge for October: No Microsoft Software
#7In some parts of Academia this would require no change at all. Our lab is all Linux or Apple.
Re: Matt Cutts 30 day challenge for October: No Microsoft Software
#8What I find interesting is how incredibly easy it is to do this. I use Microsoft products maybe once or twice a month, almost exclusively for testing (or opening up the occasional Excel file, but that's just because I haven't yet bothered to install OpenOffice on my Mac). I don't even go out of my way to avoid Microsoft software, their products simply don't provide anything that I need.
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#9Having not used any MS software for years outside of work and occasional troubleshooting for friends, this just doesn't seem like a big deal to me. Familiarity breeds contempt, I suppose, but for someone who could even consider doing this (i.e., no vital Windows-only applications, no PC gaming, etc.), I can't imagine it making much of a difference. If my day job didn't involve .NET, I'd never touch MS software and wouldn't really notice. The only practical difference to me is remembering whether to type "ls" or "dir" and that installing/upgrading software on Ubuntu is easier and requires less rebooting.
Okay, on second though, this is sounding like I'm bashing him, which is absolutely not the case. His previous 30-day challenges involved substantial lifestyle adjustments, with non-trivial time commitments and the whole 30-day challenge concept is awesome. It's just that compared to previous challenges, "use Ubuntu" seems not very ambitious.
Is it just that I've gotten unusually lucky in my experiences with Ubuntu or something?
Re: Matt Cutts 30 day challenge for October: No Microsoft Software
#10Challenge for November: No Google Software. That's where I'd have trouble.
"... Challenge for November: No Google Software. ..."
That is a challenge. My blog is on appengine, I prototype appengine, groups, search. Have to think about that one.