If Microsoft and other companies move towards web based software and allow you to do everything online then many people will have older computers which have excess capacity and they will no longer need them. What will the world do with 1 Billion old computers? Can we recycle them, mine them for parts and prevent them from contaminating the ground water?
Well maybe the extra space and processing could be used for Virtual Memory, or to run Holographic Projection on a USB port, if all the applications ran web-based. What does Microsoft and companies like Google expect from such a web based application subscription market?
Well Microsoft and Google expect everyone in the entire world to run Microsoft and Google Word Processing Software, I would not expect anything less of a goal for them. Would you? If I were running Microsoft or Google, that is what I would do and I would want to win market share too.
You have to admit that the lower price of computers due to web based applications would help cross the digital divide right? Lower prices on new computers mean that more people can afford them. Software companies like Microsoft are getting ripped off by pirates stealing the software and counterfeiting it. It is a huge problem. But if it is subscription based web applications that it offers then they have a solid revenue stream.
Of course Microsoft will have competition, Google appears to be trying to head them off at the pass, unfortunately Google did a dismal roll-out on their web based office suite, we shall see. No anti-trust there now and Linux office suit could also compete fair and square of course competing against Microsoft head on?
No FTC issues, boy I bet the FTC is bummed they are just looking to make a name for themselves these days. Most in Washington DC see the FTC as the ugly step-child of the Department of Justice, quite an embarrassment actually. It looks like web based software applications maybe closer than we think. Maybe this will usher in a new age of lower priced computer equipment? Time will tell.
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