Time for Microsoft to Start Worrying
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| Behind all this is Google's understanding that the future of software
| lies in Web-based applications. At the moment, Microsoft does not see
| these apps as much of a danger, because most of the current Google
| applications are aimed at consumers instead of enterprise business
| users, the bread-and-butter audience for Microsoft Office and
| related business products.
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| Over time, though, online applications like Google's will become
| a real threat to Microsoft's Office franchise. Just ask the folks
| at Seibel.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,2122687,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03079TX1K0000585
Microsoft has known about this threat for over a decade, which is why it
aggressively (illegally) monopolised the Web browsers market.
Related:
Gates (many many years ago): "I admit I find it hard to focus lost of
resources on trials and things when the Inetarnet is taking away our power
every day and will have eroded it irretrievably by the time broadband is
pervasive on the course we are on right now."
http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/122106/PLEX0_5704.pdf
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