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Slowly Transitioning to Online Software
By Martin English | December 28, 2007
from Google Operating System:
The New York Times has a long article about the differences between Google and Microsoft in terms of vision.
The growing confrontation between Google and Microsoft promises to be an epic business battle. It is likely to shape the prosperity and progress of both companies, and also inform how consumers and corporations work, shop, communicate and go about their digital lives. Google sees all of this happening on remote servers in faraway data centers, accessible over the Web by an array of wired and wireless devices — a setup known as cloud computing. Microsoft sees a Web future as well, but one whose center of gravity remains firmly tethered to its desktop PC software.
Eric Schmidt envisions that about 90% of today’s computing tasks can be moved online.
To explain, Mr. Schmidt steps up to a white board. He draws a rectangle and rattles off a list of things that can be done in the Web-based cloud, and he notes that this list is expanding as Internet connection speeds become faster and Internet software improves. In a sliver of the rectangle, about 10 percent, he marks off what can’t be done in the cloud, like high-end graphics processing.
Topics: Google, Microsoft, Technology, Web / Web 2.0 |
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