Microsoft's response to Google Chrome? SharePoint | The Open ...

Microsoft, then, has not been sitting still, waiting to be run over by Google. It has been quietly spreading SharePoint throughout enterprises. SharePoint opens up enterprise data to Microsoft services, running in Microsoft's browser. Unlike Google, however, Microsoft already has an impressive beachhead in the enterprise. It's called Office, and most enterprises are addicted to it.

In sum, if Google is aiming for Windows, it's going to lose, because the table stakes are much higher. For Microsoft, the game is SharePoint. For the rest of the industry, including Google, the response needs to be content standardization. Watch this space.

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