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Google is Microsoft's New Open Source
Robert writes "Steve Ballmer told investors recently that Microsoft's biggest challenge is embracing software-as-a-service business models, as
embodied by rival Google Inc. Investing in software as a service and advertising-supported businesses is a challenge
like that which the company faced at the dawn of the open-source movement. To paraphrase
him heavily, the takeaway was: Yes, we're investing a lot, but it's riskier, long-term,
not to do so. We have a lot of cool stuff coming up and, yes, we are also playing catch-up
on a couple of fronts. His speech came a
month after Microsoft revealed that its R&D budget for fiscal 2007, which ends
mid-2007, would rise to $6.2bn." From the article: "We've
got to make this transition, which our industry is making, from software as a product to
software as a service ... If you want to be a leading software
company, you've got to be a leading software-as-a-service company."
We have now found the perfect slashdot headline.
All the key memes are there.
We need continue no longer.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
Children killed by flying chairs
Truly a nightmare scenario for those who don't need a rational reason to hate MS.
I don't see MS turning Windows into a web service. How are you going to access it from your PC, boot into Linux?
No we still need "AT&T looks to charge Microsoft for , the rival to Google's developed by former Sun and Apple employees, using too much bandwidth while microsoft's counter suite attacks AT&T for allowing the NSA to spy on their employees."
I can throw a one hundred thousand pound walrus right through a brick wall.
It's still missing a speculative question mark and the word 'killer'.
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