Microsoft after Goggle’s Web Apps with Office 14

The software giant from Redmond just can’t let Google take a way most of their market without at least some resistance and with that, they release Microsoft Office 14 set for release this coming 2010, a version of their world renowned Microsoft Office System that is still one of the most widely used software in the world to date. It comes with stripped down version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more, allowing people over the net to share their work online through the internet, Google Apps style. Microsoft has done an almost complete turnaround with it’s embracing of PHP that has surprised industry experts who regarded Microsoft as more of a proprietary software maker who shares nothing and buys everybody they step on.
Ballmer may have something to do with it and their change of heart may simply be a way of them maintaining relevance where everybody is giving software almost for free, earning profits form advertising and other avenues of opportunity. Giving Office the ability to have several users connected thought the net using the same document and editing it at the same time allows collaborative work that was only in the dreams of previous office users, and of course, pouted by Google as if teasing their opponent. They touted it and they got resistance and whether it does get the same response as Google’s Apps, time will tell, Microsoft has suffered greatly form recent problems such as anti-trust cases and many other legal issues so they really need this one.