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mathewingram.com - 10/29/2008
Does a Web Office hurt Google or MSFT?
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So Microsoft seems to have finally woken up and decided to get serious about the Web — or at least semi-serious — by rolling out a cloud-computing platform called Azure and announcing the imminent arrival of Web-ized versions of its Office applications (my favourite response to ...
Welcome to Google Apps
google.com - 10/28/2008
Welcome to Google Apps
— google.com — Stay connected and be more productive For personal use Keep in touch and share with friends and... family. Free, intuitive tools you can access anywhere with a single account. Gmail Fast, searchable email with less spam Google Talk IM and call your ... (more) Welcome to Google Apps

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Google Abandons Standards, Forks OpenID — The NeoSmart Files
neosmart.net - 10/29/2008
Google Abandons Standards, Forks OpenID — The NeoSmart Files
— neosmart.net — A couple of hours ago, the Google Security Team posted an article claiming that Google’s made the... switch to OpenID , joining Yahoo! and Microsoft in the ranks OpenID providers. But it looks like someone may have been a bit to hasty to pull that switch ... (more) Google Abandons Standards, Forks OpenID — The ...

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Microsoft Office Comes to the Browser (Finally)
readwriteweb.com - 10/28/2008
Microsoft Office Comes to the Browser (Finally)
— readwriteweb.com — Microsoft announced this morning at its PDC conference that the next release of Microsoft Office will include... browser-based versions of some of its main office software products - Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. These will be "lightweight ... (more) Microsoft Office Comes to the Browser (Finally)

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Profy:  Microsoft Hopes to Build a Complementary Revenue Stream with its Online Office Suit

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Microsoft Hopes to Build a Complementary Revenue Stream with its Online Office Suit
Profy — ... Mathew Ingram asks an interesting question about the possibility of Microsoft online office applications competing with the desktop Microsoft office. His conclusion is that Microsoft will make their online offering strong enough to make people switch from Google but still limited enough for people not to switch from desktop to online applications. I agree with Mathew as I tend to think Microsoft is building an additional source of revenue, not a competitor for itself. Of course the right balance will be hard to find here for Microsoft not to damage its own business by finally ...

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