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Google Declares War on Microsoft
hajmola writes "According to an article in The Inquirer, 'Google has confirmed that it will launch free spreadsheet and word-processing software online and take on Microsoft in one of its biggest markets. Under the deal, Google will allow web users to access Sun's OpenOffice from a toolbar.'" This is full confirmation of a story from Tuesday. Forbes thinks this isn't anything to write home about, while InfoWorld disagrees.
Don't you think saying that microsoft does not understand the internet space is a bold statement? Internet Explorer is single most popular browser, MSN Hotmail and Messanger are widely used, A new version of Hotmail named Kahuna is coming out. Look at the video in channel9.msdn.com . Kahunu is going to kick-ass. AJAX, was invented in Microsoft and MS was the first company to use it for their outlook web version. This shows that MS can quickly create web version of its product if it thinks so. What else? Oh Google Maps, MS had that long back... One thing that Google is able to completely beat MS is in creating lot of hype. Google is a huge bubble ready to burst. People can live without Google, but hey can't without MS.
> I continue to use Gmail for the convenience (not to mention the kickass
> interface)
Each to their own - only this week I got off my ass and got Thunderbird to talk to my Gmail account (in addition to my ISPs) because I prefer the speed and aesthetics of apps to websites.
> The only problem with that whole theory is the little clause in Gmail's privacy
> policy that says that copies of deleted messages may remain on their systems for
> some period of time (left undefined) after you delete them.
Well, it's only a matter of time before all ISPs in countries aligned to the US (that is, most of them) will have to keep all emails, records of phone calls and snail mail post for the "war on terror" so Google is just being one step ahead of the pack, as usual!