Facing Free Software, Microsoft Looks to Yahoo - New York Times - The Diigo Meta page

• 12 Feb 08
  

  Bill H

  microsoft saas yahoo

  • This is the Internet’s latest phase: people using freely distributed  applications, from e-mail and word processing programs to spreadsheets, games  and financial management tools. They run on distant, massive and shared data  centers, and users of the services pay with their attention to ads, not cash.
  • But a merger would also allow Microsoft to adapt its empire to compete in a  world of low-cost Internet-centered software
  • Yahoo’s huge user base could provide the audience and the infrastructure for  Microsoft to change how it distributes its products and charges for them

  • The bulk of the company’s profit comes from selling to corporations, which  unlike consumers may be slower to adapt to a system in which proprietary data is  not stored in corporate-owned data centers.
  • But the corporate business, too, is coming under increasing assault from  lower-cost Internet competitors, including Microsoft’s archnemesis, Google

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