Great post - talks about "Microsoft Application Virtualization (MAV)"
He's right - this will kill other HTML/XML based web app's. Office online with all the richness vs. the rest of them.
Here's a simple test - tabs... try tabbing in an online word processor. It doesn't work.
Ultimately it boils down to solving the customer need/want. At that point what's good enough? Free is one way, however it's not a sustainable business model. Therefore something that costs just a little more - yet delivers more is the way to go.
Virtualizing Office is the way to do it. What comes next is Virtualizing Windows which should have been done years ago.
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It will be a death knell but a slow one. Microsoft is going to come in too high in price to compete head on with an established low price that Google has. Those that don't mind Tab-lag will hang on until they've tasted the full MS Office experiance. But that's usually the case. Microsoft solutions are sometimes after the fact or catch-up and can be slightly higher in cost due to value-added features that we end up liking and paying for. Once MS figures out the model they will be a compelling "feature rich" option.
Peepel online office supports tab :)
(www.peepel.com)
Thanks
Steve
CEO Peepel
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