Microsoft Makes More Moves to Software as a Service
Microsoft is making more announcements about its strategy to implement some kind of Web-based Office solution. We've been waiting for details on how Redmond would respond to Google Apps and the demise of pay-for-local-use word processing/spreadsheet/presentation software. The details are still somewhat unclear but I think Microsoft Business Division President Jeff Raikes got it right, when he said online/local implementations is not an either or proposition:
We believe that the future of technology at work will be a combination of local software on client PCs or on-premise servers, along with services available in the “cloud.” Our approach is to give customers the choice, flexibility and power of both software plus services. Think of it as a continuum, ranging from pure software to pure services approaches. Most customers will be somewhere in the middle.
The big questions in my mind still focus on how Google and Microsoft will deal craft a security implementation that will meet the compliance requirements CIOs and CSOs will want before moving to a third party service for office software. I have more on this topic in an earlier post.
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