Battle for the platforms
Recently Bill Gates has announced that Microsoft is planning on Internet versions of Windows and Office. I'm not sure what exacly this means or how they're going to pull this off, but it's quite surprising that Microsoft having their core products relying on the desktop for Windows and Office now moving on to platform independent web versions.
Yes, it's still vaporware, but a beta site is already up for Windows Live! and it's non other than live.com !
Windows Live Mail is the next generation of Hotmail which was earlier announced with the codename Hotmail Kahuna. It promises the interface of the desktop version of Office Outlook 2003, with multi-select drag drop and right click context menus all with AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) technologies. Watch out GMail!
While Microsoft is moving onto the web arena, the web frontier Google is moving onto the desktop space. Google released Google Desktop 2 recently, which is a combination of Google Desktop Search and the Google Sidebar all in one. So you get to see your GMail, your News etc all in one place plus the desktop search built on top of it.
As I have blogged earlier in March, Microsoft introduced their online (RSS) news reader at start.com with cool drag and drop and AJAX tricks. Google recently joined the game with their own Google Reader. Check that out. It's still beta like every other Google thing, but still very impressive. Btw. when is GMail coming out of Beta? It's been in beta stage since...... forever. :-/
Yes, it's still vaporware, but a beta site is already up for Windows Live! and it's non other than live.com !
Windows Live Mail is the next generation of Hotmail which was earlier announced with the codename Hotmail Kahuna. It promises the interface of the desktop version of Office Outlook 2003, with multi-select drag drop and right click context menus all with AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) technologies. Watch out GMail!
While Microsoft is moving onto the web arena, the web frontier Google is moving onto the desktop space. Google released Google Desktop 2 recently, which is a combination of Google Desktop Search and the Google Sidebar all in one. So you get to see your GMail, your News etc all in one place plus the desktop search built on top of it.
As I have blogged earlier in March, Microsoft introduced their online (RSS) news reader at start.com with cool drag and drop and AJAX tricks. Google recently joined the game with their own Google Reader. Check that out. It's still beta like every other Google thing, but still very impressive. Btw. when is GMail coming out of Beta? It's been in beta stage since...... forever. :-/
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