2006! Let the games begin
What a way to start the year. If anyone has been reading up on the CES show that happened in Las Vegas, the internet was the sole focus on everyones mind. Starting with the boring keynote from Bill Gates which apparently people were walking out on, to the ecstatic response to the Larry Page and [...]
What a way to start the year. If anyone has been reading up on the CES show that happened in Las Vegas, the internet was the sole focus on everyones mind. Starting with the boring keynote from Bill Gates which apparently people were walking out on, to the ecstatic response to the Larry Page and comedian Robin Williams keynote speech. The oddest combination indeed, but it worked. Google Pack(http://pack.google.com), was what the keynote was mainly about. A pack that consists of a browser, anti-virus software, desktop search, Media organiser, Screensavers, PDF Viewer etc. All in one handy download. Microsoft should be squirming right about now. Here comes a company that is using microsofts very operating system and branding it as their own! Did i hear Google XP!
All thats left now is a free office application and they will have come full circle. Judging from the recent alliance with Sun microsystem that can’t be far behind. Add to that their tie up with CBS for videos at $1.99 will make them the ultimate media mogul. Scary!
With Apple constantly innovating the operating system and monopolising portable entertainment sphere, Google providing an entire software package to counter Microsoft on it very platform, Microsoft better hurry up on Vista and wow the world if it wants to survive. Even the very famous WinTEL alliance is of shaky ground with Intel moving into devices and other Operating system to drive sales. Could the era of the Microsoft monopoly actually coming to an end? Your thoughts!
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dotone
January 8th, 2006 at 2:17 pmReally scary!
I additionally read this article which shook me. Check this and and this. Scary indeed!
Nitin
March 13th, 2006 at 2:50 amI think it was Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems who predicted that the network would be the computer. He was a bit early then. But Google’s recent purchase of Writely suggests that they are on the road to offering an online “Office” package. If so, the concept of the thin client is getting closer to becoming reality. Imagine if all the software we needed was online and free. Next step: online data storage. That pretty much does away with the need for desktop storage or at least brings it down to a minimum.
Now, if only gaming could be applied to this as well. Unfortunately this can only take off once a certain critical mass of broadband Internet access is reached.
But, would Microsoft and all the other software publishers who make their bread & butter from pushing boxes off retail shelves allow such a scenario unless they redefined their own business models?