Microsoft And Google Moving More Deeply Into Each Others’ Businesses
August 1st, 2007 by admin
Microsoft vows it won’t let its core businesses be undermined by “the cloud.” This article from the NY Times (and related discussion at Techmeme) quotes Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer saying that Microsoft will compete aggressively with Google and other online alternatives to Office and will offer Web-based versions of all its core software:
“We’re not moving toward a world of thin computing,†said Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, referring to systems in which simple processing takes place on a PC, but more complex processing is moved to a centralized computer through a network connection. “We’re moving toward a world of software plus services.â€Â
Nearly every Microsoft software application will be transformed with the addition of a Web-services component within 3 to 10 years, he said.
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