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Subject:  Another web - based replacement for Word - no cigar.
Author:   textor:   view profile | all posts by this author | add to favourites
Date:   09:08:30 27 March 2006
 
I heard the Microsoft thing as well, but to me it doesn't make any sense:

1. No corporate is ever going to agree to having its valuable assets floating around on the Internet.  They will always opt for an in-house solution.  And there are many ways of providing a controlled in-house central applications resource without implementing a semi-perfect AJAX application. 

2. If Microsoft ever releases a product for the rest of us punters, it will be a response to a percieved competitive threat. Expect such a response to be 
(a) a crippled application suite with the Microsoft brand.  This will be devised to be more attractive than rivals such as Writely, but not of a standard to impact its software sales and 
(b) for IE to very subtly restrict the possible functionality of rival suppliers.  Probably these will be implemented as security releases.  

Am I beginning to sound paranoid?  I worry about this but not too much ;-)

Bob
 
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