Microsoft Office Goes Online
Read the full story over at SarahInTampa's blog:
http://www.sarahintampa.com/sarah/2007/10/microsoft-offic.html
This is something I have been giving a lot of thought lately. What will the software world look like in 5 years? In 10 years? Will desktop application development be needed anymore for software built for the masses? Will everything move to the online world? Google and Microsoft think so.
The online world and online applications have so many benefits that it may be an inevitable future and the reason I have realigned myself to websites and online applications. Slowly the hurdles of online applications are being overcome, like offline work (see Google Gears) and as more are addresses, like security, the need for a local application will become less.
What are your thoughts? How would you like having you sensitive data processed online?
http://www.sarahintampa.com/sarah/2007/10/microsoft-offic.html
This is something I have been giving a lot of thought lately. What will the software world look like in 5 years? In 10 years? Will desktop application development be needed anymore for software built for the masses? Will everything move to the online world? Google and Microsoft think so.
The online world and online applications have so many benefits that it may be an inevitable future and the reason I have realigned myself to websites and online applications. Slowly the hurdles of online applications are being overcome, like offline work (see Google Gears) and as more are addresses, like security, the need for a local application will become less.
What are your thoughts? How would you like having you sensitive data processed online?
posted by Veign at
10:22 PM
1 Comments:
Thanks for the link. It does seem that there are many ways to do this...
either offline software with an online web component for sharing/collaboration
or
online software with an offline componment for when you aren't connected
and until we have Googlenet - it's coming, you know :) - I still need access to my stuff when I'm offline
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sarahintampa, at 8:28 AM EST
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