In my recent presentations I have been talking about the upcoming war
over the desktop between Microsoft and Google/Sun. I believe that the
desktop is no longer going to be a window into your personal computer's
hard drive. It will be an aggregator for your “personal web.â€
Microsoft clearly agrees and is moving towards building hosted
applications of its key office products. We understand that all of
these products will also be RSS enabled in the new Vista operating
suite. What that means is that you can subscribe through your desk top
aggregator to documents in Sharepoint, CRM, and ERP. This is an
important step towards Learning 2.0.

Microsoft is leaping into hosted applications big time. InformationWeek reports
that Microsoft plans to offer hosted implementations of SharePoint, CRM
and ERP applications. But the best quote in that article was left till
last. A “Microsoft insider†was asked which other products and
services Microsoft would host and the reply was: “Everything. Hosted Office. Everything hosted.â€
Ahem, can anyone say Web 2.0 Office? Exactly a month ago I wrote what turned out to be a very popular post entitled The Web-based Office will have its day.
My main focus in that post was all of the small start-ups that are
currently building web-based office apps. I forgot to mention that of
course there's nothing stopping Microsoft from building their own Web 2.0 Office! Perhaps that's their only option to head off Google, because Google Office has been rumored to be around the corner for 1-2 years now… [Full Story at ZDNet]

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