Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Microsoft: We’re Taking Software Off the Desktop and Moving It to … Circuit City
Microsoft is moving desktop computing to the cloud, but if you want to come along, you’ve got to change planes at Circuit City.
Microsoft is moving desktop computing to the cloud, but if you want to come along, you’ve got to change planes at Circuit City.
The battle for supremacy in the online office productivity and collaboration space won’t be fought in the “cloud” as Google and IBM claim, but on the desktop.
Says who? Says Microsoft, that’s who. And with a 95% share of the productivity software market, according to research firm International Data Corp., who’s to argue?
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