Students vs. Google Apps vs. Office Web Apps

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Buyer beware

Before people get too excited about Office Web Apps, they need to remember that:

- Google's strength comes from its ability to create quality, innovative products, based on open standards. Google has even established the "Data Liberation Front" (http://www.dataliberation.org/), to make it easy to migrate user data in & out of Google's products & services.

- Microsoft's strength comes from its ability to lock-in users, with proprietary technology. YOU'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE...at least not easily.

- Google builds web apps & services that are intended to run EQUALLY WELL on ANY PLATFORM with a modern, standards-compliant browser (i.e. Windows/OS X/Linux...smartphones/notebooks/tablets,...).

- Microsoft builds web apps & services that only run/always run BETTER, with other MICROSOFT PRODUCTS & proprietary technologies (Windows/Office/IE/Silverlight). This serves to "lock" users, into their ecosystem.

Look at the hell businesses are going through now, just to move from IE6, to a modern, standards-compliant web browser.

Until Microsoft demonstrates that they have truly changed, I'll take Google, thank-you.

As they say: Buyer beware.

Posted by: linuser   Posted on: 09/22/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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