So many bloggers and media have commented and made big deal of the Google Spreadsheets . Now, this 'webification' of software used traditionally as a desktop app is a step in right direction but does it pinch Microsoft anywhere, not in my view. I have been running Google betas for some years now, I have...

I worked with Vic briefly during my Developer Relations Group (DRG) time as an evangelist at Microsoft during the late 1990s. Vic was one of the pioneering drivers behind the evangelism teams at Microsoft and was the guy ultimately responsible for sites like channel9.msdn.com and who Scoble rolled up...

I have been meaning to restart blogging for quite some time now, but kept putting it off for one reason or another. But no more. In this second innings of blogging, I would like to give my blog a new focus, something I am more involved with now. The focus henceforth would be Microsoft and Google and...

I just chuckled when I saw this today after getting my laptop updated with IE7 . Just a rule of thumb: I * never * add new software to my laptop before a conference , so I’m getting caught up now. It’s funny since I noticed that my Google toolbar had recently auto-updated with some cool new...

As rumored yesterday , Google made a major announcement : a subscription package of premium, hosted business applications. (Man, Arrington's sources are scary good). The service combines GMail, Google Calendar, Google Talk and Google Docs & Spreadsheets for $50 per user annually. I still insist that...

Dare points to this insightful, if nefarious, post on how Microsoft could crush Google in one easy step . I've long made the argument that Google is not a technology company, but rather an advertising / media company. Clearly, the distinction between technology and media is at least blurring. In fact...

Dare points to this insightful, if nefarious, post on how Microsoft could crush Google in one easy step . I've long made the argument that Google is not a technology company, but rather an advertising / media company. Clearly, the distinction between technology and media is at least blurring. In fact...

As rumored yesterday , Google made a major announcement : a subscription package of premium, hosted business applications. (Man, Arrington's sources are scary good). The service combines GMail, Google Calendar, Google Talk and Google Docs & Spreadsheets for $50 per user annually. I still insist that...

I just chuckled when I saw this today after getting my laptop updated with IE7 . Just a rule of thumb: I * never * add new software to my laptop before a conference , so I’m getting caught up now. It’s funny since I noticed that my Google toolbar had recently auto-updated with some cool new...

So many bloggers and media have commented and made big deal of the Google Spreadsheets . Now, this 'webification' of software used traditionally as a desktop app is a step in right direction but does it pinch Microsoft anywhere, not in my view. I have been running Google betas for some years now, I have...