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read moreMicrosoft Works going free online poses dilemma
Stan Beer
Saturday, 23 September 2006 09:17
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The latest Yahoo Mail product provides a look and feel and
functionality very similar to the desktop based Outlook. What does
Microsoft do when Writely, Google Spreadsheets and a plethora of other
online products being developed also match Microsoft Office products
for functionality?Will businesses and home users be prepared to pay US$500 or even US$200 for an Office 2007 license, when they can simply register as a free user with Google or Yahoo? Not likely.
Microsoft is in a similar position to what newspapers faced 10 years ago, when the internet emerged as a better and cheaper pull medium to distribute news and information. The newspapers found themselves faced with the prospect of being forced to go online but, in doing so, they had to cannibalize their own legacy products.
Sooner of later, Microsoft is going to be forced to make Office a suite of free web services supported by advertising. The dilemma facing Microsot is that the company is damned to the annals of technology history if it doesn't and damned to the tune of US$12 billion a year if it does.
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