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Re:Why Microsoft Will Never Win (they blew their lead on web... by josefresco on Friday June 06, 2008 @08:37AM (#210777)
If MS had introduced their customers to web apps in the early 00's, they would have both shot themselves in the foot and allowed competitors to have a go at the other foot.

By killing NetDocs the average business person stayed ignorant to the possibilities of applications online, therefore extending MS's cash cow several/many years longer.

Beyond the IT savvy I don't see anyone using Google Docs or Zoho, and pretty much every client I interact with still relies heavily on MS Office (I have a hard time even recommending OOO as people are so used to their old tools). I'd say MS's strategy is still working quite well.

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Re:Why Microsoft Will Never Win (they blew their lead on web... by cstejerean on Friday June 06, 2008 @10:50AM (#210870)
People keep ignoring the importance of what the early adopters are doing. The fact that the bleeding edge users have all but abandoned MS should be a sign of concern.
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Re:Why Microsoft Will Never Win (they blew their lead on web... by brfox on Friday June 06, 2008 @01:55PM (#211015)
I used Google Docs and Zoho extensively, and both are very fun, but they still are so dang slow it is really unbearable. For example, copy/paste & undo/redo are just tedious. Why is having a nice (and much faster) piece of software running as a binary on your own machine seen as becoming obsolete? It is a much better experience in terms of word processing and especially spreadsheets.
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Re:Why Microsoft Will Never Win (they blew their lead on web... by axod on Friday June 06, 2008 @11:42AM (#210895)
So instead they forced consumers to use their buggy horrible web browser, making developing on the web really hard for everyone else! Great strategy for them to stretch out their monopoly, but not for users.
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Re:Why Microsoft Will Never Win (they blew their lead on web... by eru on Friday June 06, 2008 @10:32AM (#210851)
Perhaps http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=210696 is relevant here.
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