"Confusing." That's how Kurt DelBene, senior VP of Microsoft's Office Business Productivity Group, summed up Google's cloud-based approach to desktop productivity and collaboration in an interview this week with InformationWeek.
Microsoft's strategy, by contrast, is focused and consistent, DelBene claimed, offering "full-fidelity viewing" across on-premise, Internet-based and mobile platforms. It was no surprise to hear DelBene playing Microsoft trump cards, like Office's ubiquity and Redmond's offering of both PC and cloud-based apps. But DelBene didn't give an inch on Microsoft's ability to compete and win in pure cloud deployments as well, with its Online Services and Office Web Applications.
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