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The Trojan Horse: Web Apps

July 18, 2009 – 1:03 pm

Web Apps are the future: modern, light, run and updated in the Cloud, they will progressively replace the antiquated, bloated, expensive to buy and manage desktop “client” applications.
So says Google. And walking the talk, they put their Google Apps against the reigning champion of desktop applications: Microsoft Office.
Microsoft never gives up and, as expected, announced [...]

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Google OS: Chrome-Plated Linux or Microsoft 2.0?

July 12, 2009 – 7:39 pm

Here’s what I think its taking place:
Microsoft executives and Board members are no dummies: they know Cloud Computing threatens the Windows + Office + Exchange gold mine, the biggest in our industry’s history. They know the future is Office + Exchange running in dual-mode. From the Cloud when a Net connection is available; locally when [...]

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