No Microsoft 'Web Office' on tap, says Ozzie
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| Microsoft is paying attention to Web-based Office suites but does
| not intend to release one itself in the near future, Microsoft's
| chief software architect Ray Ozzie told ZDNet's Dan Farber.
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This is an utterly stupid (if not suicidal) move, in my humble opinion.
Bandwidth is increased, mobility is needed more than ever (e.g.
smartphones), and browser capabilities improve. I guess competing with your
own cash cow leads to guilt (OpenOffice aside).
It's about short-term gains (native Office) rather than a look ahead...
didn't work out well when Gates chose to ignore the Internet back in 1993.
Microsoft pretends that the desktop as it knows it will never change.
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