On September 29, 2009
Handicapping Microsoft And Google’s Online Collision
Now that Microsoft has given its partners a limited preview of its Office applications suite, the race to dominate the market for online productivity tools has officially begun. On the face of it, despite its tardy entry to this race Microsoft has an enormous head start because of its base of users of the ubiquitous Office suite, which includes Word, Excel PowerPoint and a few other applications. (Microsoft also likes to claim that it’s an old hand at software-as-a-service (SaaS) because it’s been delivering Hotmail, Outlook Web Access (OWA) and several other products via the Web for years, but that’s a red herring; Microsoft has little experience with the actual business of delivering and charging for SaaS applications, and most…
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