InformationWeek SMB: Microsoft Web Apps Put Pressure On Google
This article strikes a different note than an earlier one in the same publication about rivals Google and Microsoft, this one arguing that new Web-based versions of MS Office pose a direct challenge to Google Apps. Do you need to reassess which horse to back in this race?
“With Microsoft’s 2010 portfolio of Office products coming out shortly, Google is under the gun. It has to figure out how to head off Microsoft before the company closes the gap on browser-based applications (which it fully intends to do).
Google’s battle cry for much of the last year was, “The Web has won.” Yet it was a premature declaration of victory. Web applications still don’t get the respect accorded to their desktop counterparts.”
