Law Students

Link: Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Rumor: Microsoft about to unveil web-apps    strategy. Really, no one should be surprised that MS will move aggressively to "cloud." Remember that Ray Ozzie, the father of both Lotus Notes and Groove, understands a thing or two about collaborative computing. Google has yet to prove that it really understands application integration at the kind sophisticated level that users have come to expect from MS Office. It is embrace and extend, yet again. Google has an opportunity, but this game is just getting started and when MS comes to cloud, they are coming strong. Apps is what they do, this is their turf, and they are not going to give up much without a serious fight.

But in many ways, it doesn't really matter. What really matters is that consumers are going to benefit both from the "innovation wars" and from the "price wars." The really interesting "stuff" will be happening elsewhere...