The Google Alarm Clock for Microsoft

Ray Ozzie stated that Google’s ability to make significant money in advertising revenue has been a wake-up call for Microsoft. In a recent Associated Press article on Yahoo, Ozzie continued to share how various developments at Google are forcing Microsoft to do some things differently, which is a good thing.

He says he’s been laying the groundwork for software developers to develop the next generation of software applications and services. Interesting though, because it backs my opinions of the real threat from Google to Microsoft Office applications, Ray Ozzie continues to say that Microsoft has been threatened in the past by other services and web applications, but they’ve always forsaken some features to make it to the market.

Ozzie said Word, Excel and other parts of Microsoft’s “Office” suite have weathered threats from both desktop and Web-based programs in part because competitors always compromised functionality. For example, he said, users always have to be connected to the Internet to use a Web-based word processor.

Microsoft is doing what I believe is an intelligent response to the Web only applications. Developing software that has full-functionality offline with enhanced features that use the strengths and features of the online, connected world we live in today.

AP Source: Microsoft: Google was ‘Wake-up call”