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Microsoft versus Google now??

We had reported yesterday that Google has announced its own Operating System, the Google Chrome OS. And, all of us wondered at the timing, especially considering that they don’t even have a prototype or a clear path on as to how they are going to build it! Well, we believe we just found the answer.

As per the reports reaching us at GeeksBlogging@dotCOM, it is said that Microsoft is about to announce something BIG this Monday. If the rounds over the Internet are to be believed, it seems Microsoft may be launching “Microsoft Office in the Cloud”. All of us believe that MS Office is Microsoft’s second best selling software after MS Windows.

With the advent of Internet, and everything being available on the cloud, MS is said to be moving forward to its plans of launching an OnDemand MS Office.

What does it have to do with the Google announcement, you may ask. Well, try comparing Google Apps, and MS Office Cloud. Do you see a semblance? Google Apps’s primary focus was to make an Office suite like stack available directly over the Internet (its contentious licesing issue is still a matter of debate). With MS Office cloud coming, why do we need Google Apps at all.

Some say it is Microsoft’s response to the Google Announcement. Others believe it is in fact Google, who made an advanced announcement to take some sheen away from the MS announcement on Monday! This also seems reasonable to an extent considering the circumstances of Google announcement, and the amount of speculation it generated.

It quite seems a case of Google versus Microsoft then. Who will win, is still an open ended question.

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