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Microsoft Office under fire
- ideas101 19y agoGoogle should tie-up with biggies like HP, IBM, Best buys etc. and give their apps on CD for free - this will increase the awareness and potential, also they should add a tool for automatic synchronization between docs on the hard disk and google doc website, this way user can have a backup copy and they can work off-line while they are on the go.
- jimbokun 19y ago""We think the future is going to be software plus services," Darren Strange, senior product manager for Microsoft Office, said. "There are some things which thick client [Microsoft's favoured model, where PCs are linked to a central server but can operate independently] is better at than [web-based services] X offline use being a big one." The need for off-line access to data is shrinking every day. Many people simply can't do their job without a network connection. "You also can't create the richness of an application like Word through a thin client [where a user's PC is effectively a dumb terminal and the processing of data is done elsewhere]". Why not? Maybe not today, but next year, five years from now? Items get checked off the "can't do that in a browser" list every day. "Our smartest people are looking at mash-ups [where several online tools are fused together to create new ones] and web 2.0-type applications [which focus on online tools that allow users to collaborate and share information]". They're just LOOKING INTO mash-ups and Web 2.0 applications now? Isn't the industry looking for a Web 3.0 model already?
- hello_moto 19y agoI haven't seen anyone challenging a market where Microsoft practically own except in the browser market (i.e. Firefox). Journalist/blogger should write stuff about Microsoft when there is something growing fast against it, not when some company purchase Zimbra. Have Yahoo! ever done anything right integrating stuff they bought?