Elephants and Evolution - How the Landscape is Changing for Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Adobe


	Elephants and Evolution - How the Landscape is Changing for Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Adobe

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11-1-2006 10:15 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/db3d9087-c2af-4049-bec6-aabcde086ecc/38E9C2C8-16A5-40DF-87BA-290A278E6854/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/elephants_and_evolution.php" href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/elephants_and_evolution.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.readwriteweb.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/elephants_and_evolution.php"><P><IMG width="183" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="240" border="0" align="left" alt="elephants" src="http://static.flickr.com/102/285573788_af2885f0fe_m.jpg" />The two
elephants of personal computing these days are <B>Microsoft</B> and <B>Google</B>.
Microsoft rose to dominance by capturing the desktop. Google is rising to dominance by
capturing the web. Both strategies revolve around <B>who can capture your data</B>.
Elephants require massive amounts of food to survive, so it's no surprise that Microsoft
and Google are eyeing each other's data. Microsoft has started a '<A href="http://www.live-documents.com/">Live</A>' initiative to engage Google on the web.
Google has tinkered with <A href="http://docs.google.com/">productivity</A> apps that
might just work <A href="http://news.com.com/2061-12572_3-6124601.html">offline</A>, to
join Microsoft on the desktop. If either Microsoft or Google is successful at grabbing
the other's data, the most useful byproduct of their efforts will be new ways to easily
move data <B>between</B> the desktop and web. The result of this battle will further blur
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