Is Google the Next Microsoft?

I was upgrad­ing Word­Press installs this morn­ing and found this in the drafts folder of my old blog Magpie’s Shiny Things.

Is Google the Next Microsoft

Yeah, prob­a­bly, so what?

The mar­ket demands that there be an easy, no brainer, can’t pos­si­bly get in trou­ble for choos­ing solu­tion for the vast majority.

Tools need to be one stop shop­ping, easy stan­dard­iza­tion and all from a sin­gle source — If you buy all MSFT prod­ucts they work together (mostly.) If you use all Google web apps they work together (not yet but Google under­stands how impor­tant this is.)

Just like in the past (and present) every­one else had to offer the abil­ity to read and write to the MSFT file for­mats in their appli­ca­tions every­one else on the web will have to do so the same with the new Google apps.

So Google will be the next 800 pound gorilla and the sun will con­tinue to rise in the east. (Unless of course MSFT gets it act together and man­ages to get Live really work­ing.) And we, the masses, will learn that Google is not a benign grand­fa­therly entity that opens doors to the won­ders of the ‘net.

Not much changes, if I were writ­ing this 20 years ago the ques­tion would be Microsoft is it the next IBM.

The answer is more clearly yes today than it was in Sept 2007 when I wrote this.

I will be reviv­ing MST. Some­how adding my thoughts on Web Devel­op­ment to a blog meant to be read by fam­ily and friends who want to com­pare the state of our var­i­ous flower beds and sewing projects seems well… odd.