"Microsoft's Steve Ballmer Calls Rivals 'Pretenders'"

Thus reports J. Nicholas Hoover of Information Week.

One interesting point:

"Ballmer said Microsoft realizes computing is in the midst of a shift from desktop-centric to a more balanced world that interweaves the best of the Web, the PC, enterprise functionality like manageability, and the explosion of different devices, but that companies looking to develop platforms on a larger scale have far to go."

More here.



One intriguing question: What if the 'pretenders' team up with worldwide users in real time ?

Wixi




A couple of ideas for a tagline:

Transforming your desktop into a webware.

Taking Learning Objects to the embeddable level.

"IBM throws weight behind OpenOffice"

Thus reports Lawrence Casiraya of Inquirer.net.

Here are some excerpts:

"IBM is contributing significant technology that will help make OpenOffice more accessible to those with disabilities," the statement said.

"In addition to actively contributing to and participating in the community, IBM will also include versions of OpenOffice in its products in the future."

Should be good for an ultimate move towards Webtop or Webware.