With their offline Google Gears released last year, Google Inc., reinforced it’s dominance of online ads and development further that Microsoft tried to get their hands on Yahoo, one of the leading competitors of Google in the Search Engine aspect of internet use. This has been an unprecedented move by Google for they were the first to release a distributed web application platform and their move to make the same system independent of the web has Microsoft clamoring for a piece of the market it has dominated for so long. Why the sudden move from one of the world’s largest software maker? The internet it helped evolve has become more than many have expected it to be and they have again been caught at the seams of their pants trying to find a piece of the pie so to speak. Microsoft’s domination of the world’s software market has continuously been under threat from open-sourced apps that are now increasing their share (or maybe simply because most open apps are FREE) of the market and big companies are being threatened that even Microsoft has opened doors to open-sourced developers for more inter-operability functionality with Microsoft’s existing Office systems.
August 25, 2009