Microsoft fights back against Google apps
Microsoft this week will make available free software that connects its Windows operating system to software delivered through the Internet, Brian Hall, a Microsoft executive said. The strategy is a major departure for a giant software firm that sells packaged software that runs on the personal computer. Microsoft designed the strategy to help shield its hundreds of millions of software customers from competitors, from Salesforce.com to Google, who already offer software applications over the Internet. Microsoft’s new Windows Live software includes an electronic mail program, a photo-sharing application and a writing tool that is designed for people who keep Web logs.
The new service is an indication that Microsoft plans to compete head-on against its rival, Google, and others, and not just in the search-engine business where it is at a significant disadvantage. Instead, industry executives and analysts said, Microsoft would try to outmaneuver its challengers by becoming the dominant digital curator of all of a user’s information, whether it is stored on a PC, a mobile device or on the Internet. Millions of PC users already rely on Web applications that either provide a service or store data. For instance, Yahoo and Google have popular e-mail programs and photo-sharing sites that are accessible through a Web browser. The photos or the e-mail are stored on those companies’ servers, a system that the computer industry calls cloud computing. The data are accessible from any PC anywhere. This will be an interesting battle…
Source: Cnet, IHTÂ
Microsoft always innovating uh?
Google although is great, its becoming a monster much like Microsoft, let battle commence…
Oh Yeah God Bless Directx
Heheheheh
I dont see why anyone would want any Google or MS Live apps. Dunno if its just me, but theyre all just a waste of time and resources.
yes and all these crappy needless programs needs Vista
how’s this for out maneuvering the market?
oh hail Bill we are in your power let us have no choice and take all our money.
Kind of reminds me of all those movies where the rebellion takes on the overlord empires.
“I dont see why anyone would want any Google or MS Live apps. Dunno if its just me, but theyre all just a waste of time and resources.”
Because of acces to excel docs for example from place connected to internet via web browser? Very usefull for me.
openoffice.org solves that problem quite nicely, especially since it’s portable.
Well google is also becoming monopolistic like microsoft so its good to see battles coming up
In typical Mortal Kombat style
Let The fight Begin
Sweet can I be Scorpion?
*GET OVER HERE!*
“embrace”… clone out the wazooo
“extend”… lock the “competitor” out
DX would make for a good compromise if the doj ever grew a couple. It’s basically the hard work of another company who did copyright theirs… heh. or at least a 15 year limit to software patents.
fuckkk google and microsoft
i wish microsoft takes over google
6+7=13
Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls…
Today’s match is sponsored by: Microsoft and Google.
In the red corner, the fearless, the mighty, the unmatchable: Bi-iiiiiiill Gates!
In the blue corner, the new pretender, the former conqueror, Lar-ryyyyyyyyyyy Page!
Let the battle begin
Big deal.
We know what going to hapend. MS will release half baked versions of live, just to have something and say they are competing.
Outlook is nice, but webmail works fine too. Picasa2 is nice for albums editing and printing.
Fuck Microsoft. Who even wants these online apps in the first place? The only reason Microsoft is doing this is because they are copying Google, just like they copy everyone, especially Apple and Google. I don’t think Google or Microsoft will succeed with these online apps, except maybe for email and other basic services, because no one really wants them. Who the hell wants an online spreadsheet?
google is giving away free mobile phones next year, i dont see microsoft following suit
hells yeah free phones cant wait
pretty soon, everything down to the length of a person’s butt crack will be stored on google’s servers.