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Microsoft misses the boat on web applications

VentureBeat  Nov 20 09

Editor’s note: Chuck Dietrich is the chief executive of online presentation company SlideRocket, and previously served as general manager and vice president of mobile at Salesforce.com. He contributed this column to VentureBeat.

There is a lot of chatter over the impending arrival of Microsoft’s Office 2010. Delayed as it may be, it has prompted an enormous amount of discussion over the potential value of Office-type applications moving online. Some say it is a game changer and bound to happen, and some claim that most users are too entrenched in current computing behaviors to make significant and habitual change. Full story...

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VentureBeat  4 hours ago

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