Microsoft’s web ambitions unveiled?
p2pnet news | Products:- Microsoft has begun briefing its large enterprise clients, "on an expansive and detailed strategy for moving its software business into the cloud, says Nicholas Carr on Rough Type.
If it’s true, and Carr says he makes no guarantees, "the company will unveil the strategy to the public either next week or the week after".
A couple of years back Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie, "warned Microsoft’s top executives and engineers that a ’services wave of applications and experiences available instantly over the internet’ was approaching and that it would reshape the traditional software business".
Carr goes on:
"The new strategy will, I’m told, lay out a roadmap of moves across three major areas: the transformation of the company’s portfolio of enterprise applications to a web-services architecture, the launch of web versions of its major PC applications, and the continued expansion of its data center network."
He adds he expects the announcements will, "reflect Microsoft’s focus on what it calls ’software plus services’ – the tying of web apps to traditional installed apps – but they nevertheless promise to mark the start of a new era for the company that has dominated the PC age."
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Also See:
Rough Type – Rumor: Microsoft about to unveil web-apps strategy, March 1, 2008
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March 3rd, 2008 at 3:31 pm
And once they manage to get web-based applications to be an integral part of computer usage, they can impose a monthly fee.
I really hope that most people are stupid enough to fall for this.