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September 14, 2006
Microsoft is preparing a free web version of Works, its entry-level Office suite, in hopes of killing off small online competitors, according to Business Week.
Looking at the explosion in the popularity of social networks like MySpace, Tony Hung foresees a balkanization of the web into separate enclaves with corporate overseers: "At the end of the day, you’ll be locked into where your friends are. The cost would be too high to migrate from system to system. You’ll spend your time within the system checking messages, blogging, communicating in real time, playing games, reading the news, and so on." So it's back to the age of Compuserve, AOL, and Prodigy?
Posted by nick at September 14, 2006 12:37 AM