Google looks at clouds from both sides now
Posted in: Internet Use/New Technologies at 11/03/2010 07:29
Google is broadening its assault on Microsoft's dominance of business software by launching an online marketplace for other companies' products.
The internet search giant wants companies to use applications piped over the internet, posing a direct challenge to Microsoft's model of selling licences for its Windows operating system and software programs such as Office, Google began to offer a free online suite of e-mail, word processing, spreadsheet and calendar applications in 2006. It has been selling a more sophisticated package of online services for $50 (£33) per user for the past three years. It says that about 25 million people working for more than two million businesses, government agencies and schools use Google's online applications. About 500 million people use Microsoft's Office.
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