There's nothing like a full-blown case
of The Fear to bring out a point by
point refutation of the client/server
ecology of online applications. Microsoft's
list of corporate-speak appeared on
Mary Jo Foley's blog, attributed to
a company spokesperson, and it's all
about keeping enterprises in line.
Microsoft's fear is well-justified.
Its Office productivity suite represents
one of the company's two major revenue
streams, with Windows being the other.
Office is as close to a fixture on corporate
desktops as is the web browser.
We aren't going to dissect Microsoft's
list of concerns point by point, because
there's only one that really matters.
That would be point number five:
Google’s apps only work if an
enterprise has no power users, employees
are always online, enterprises haven’t
built custom Office apps - doesn’t
this equal a very small % of global
information workers today? - On a feature
comparison basis, it’s not surprising
that Microsoft has a huge lead.
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