Microsoft becomes more testy about the market’s love of Google as each day passes. And, in some cases the software giant has a good point.
The latest salvo is MSFT comment about whether users of spreadsheet and word processing applications are likely to use the new Google web-based applications instead of Office. Microsoft’s answer is "no", and the company is probably right.
The Google applications are far less robust that Office and, therefore, may be of little use to corporate users. Microsoft points out that a numberr of other companies have challenged the company’s platform including other document creation and spreadsheet products. None have ever taken significant share, including options that are Linux-based.
The Google software simply offers too little to make it a world beater. Google will have to continue to live off its text ad business, at least for now.
Douglas A. McIntyre can be reached at [email protected]. He does not own securities in companies that he writes about.
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