Buy software? How passé.
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| That Super Bowl ad, Apple's dig at the IBM PC, suggested a big idea: that
| personal computers could liberate users from the tyranny of centralized
| mainframe computers, which controlled and limited what they could do.
|
| Nearly a quarter century later, a counterrevolution is in full swing. Known
| as "cloud computing," it offers liberation of a different sort: the ability
| to access and share data anytime and anywhere via everything from a cellphone
| to a full-blown computer.
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1025/p01s01-ussc.html
Google OS: The Scenario
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| Microsoft's getting into the advertising business instead of fixing its
| operating system issues, so why shouldn't Google put its billions to use
| developing a free, better OS?
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoft afflicted. Microsoft seems to suffer from this syndrome a lot more
| than Google does. Microsoft sees that Google is making a pot-load of money
| selling ads from search results and via other mechanisms. How hard can that
| be? So Ballmer is out tub-thumping for the notion that Microsoft will
| eventually generate half its income from selling ads. Is he nuts? That's like
| General Motors deciding that it doesn't want to buy ads to sell its cars—it
| will sell ads on its cars instead. Put an ad on a Cadillac! That's just dopey
| —and particularly dopey for Microsoft, since Microsoft is a software company,
| not Vogue magazine.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,2204613,00.asp
Related:
Google gets Slack with software updates
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| Maintaining a large number of Linux servers to power its search
| and Web application services is at the heart of Google's business
| and, until now, has remained a closely guarded secret.
|
| [...]
|
| Rather than relying on standard Linux operating system packages,
| Google developed its own software, dubbed "Slack", and released it
| as an open source project a year ago but Still said this is the
| first time the search giant has talked about it publicly.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1814790366&rid=-50
Adobe Photoshop: Online Edition
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| One of the risks of trying to find a niche to build a startup is that
| the big guys can land on your face at any time. That?s why all of
| these startups are going to be in serious trouble when Adobe releases
| a free, ad supported online version of Photoshop in six months.
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/28/adobe-photoshop-online-edition/
Adobe sees full shift to Web in next decade
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| Adobe Systems is working to deliver all of its software via the Web as a
| service rather than a packaged product, but the transition to earn money from
| subscriptions or advertising could take a decade...
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21359751/
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