LIVEdigitally

Even pc users will snicker at the name Bill Gates. Why is this man, who’s opened up many of the closed ‘windows’ we PC users rely on, deemed evil? Microsoft is more similar to the king evil tyrant of computers than the president of computers, and this king rules with a silicon fist. Microsoft this, Microsoft that, well wait… someone else is coming in from the horizon.

Google, who launched a chat/IM client today, is being accused of taking the spot that Microsoft has stood in for so many years. Is Google the next Microsoft? What about this Intel & Apple marriage? Where is the computer world that we know, love, and hate going?

So Google did launch Google Talk this morning, making yesterday’s LA Times piece spot on. Supporting free voice calls and traditional text-based chat, the app’s in beta (come on, it’s Google!) and currently for Windows only. Sporting compatibility with Jabber/XMPP-based IM clients like Trillian, GAIM, iChat, Adium and Psi, it requires a Gmail account and automatically imports your contacts, giving you the ability to e-mail them as well as give ‘em a call.

[Thanks for the e-mail, Tai!]