Microsoft: "Google Doesn't Understand How Businesses Use Web Apps"


In an indirect reference to Google’s Web Apps, he said, “Productivity is more than just working in the browser,” for organizations also want security policies, the ability to work with data on-premise and off-premise, and a full set of business-focused capabilities and some of which can’t yet be replicated in a browser or just aren’t part of the standard online productivity suites yet.

He also said that Google too provide the same set of tools to the consumers but “one size doesn’t fit all.” And said that Microsoft “deeply understands that businesses need capabilities that go beyond consumer needs,” he clearly implied that Google doesn’t. And he even had a pot shot at Google by saying Google’s focus is on Project Glass and not on productivity apps in Google Drive.

All said and done, Microsoft, by giving such statements, makes you to think that it is trying to trumpet the release of its Office Web Apps roadmap earlier this week and its overall publicity campaign around productivity (like Scroogled). And it also seems that the Redmond based company is quite worried over Google’s acquisition of QuickOffice, that has given Google access to better technologies to provide Office users with the kind of high-document fidelity that only the Office Web Apps currently offer online.

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