Google: Ozzie Impressed, But Won't Imitate
Ray Ozzie told Wall Street this week that
Google's
success is forcing Microsoft to respond, and respond fast! But while Google
rakes in billions from online advertising, Microsoft won't simply copy the Google
plan and go 100 percent Web.
Instead, Microsoft plans to complement existing hard drive-based tools like
Office with Web services, a model Ray calls "Software Plus Service."
If anybody else were driving this strategy, I'd be skeptical. But since Ray
is about a billion times smarter than me, I think it might just work.
Posted by Doug Barney on March 01, 2007