serpantino: LOL Google is becoming this generation's Microsoft. They're branching out as far as they can to become a huge super company whilst Microsoft withers and dies releasing uneeded OS after OS & trying to compete directly with them instead of coming up with their own ideas.
We really need this badly in the UK... our British Telecomm company are greedy morons who are upgrading our internet at a snails pace... the average UK internet speed is around 3.5mbps DL & 0.45mbps upload when I last looked. It's an absolute joke.
Actually, MS really didn't want to have to release Vista, and I suspect don't want to stick to this release cycle. They tied themselves in a knot because they are committed by their SLAs (and perhaps agreements with shareholders) to release an OS every X months. This is why Vista was such a mess, they screwed up the development, but had to release *something*.
As for needing this badly in the UK, my view is we need it like a hole in the head. However my Google hatred is well known.
As for this being Google's first ISP, I would say it is Google's first public ISP. The Googlenet has been spoken of for quite some time. They process a huge amount of traffic in a totally 'dark' network that they have between their datacentres. I read somewhere that the googlenet accounts for 8% of data transmitted in the world.
