Microsoft swears by desktop
Software major Microsoft has come out in vigorous defence of desktop application software saying that preponderance of web-based services would not kill it.
Microsoft is the mojor seller of desktop operating systems and application software in the world and has just stepped onto the terrain of web-based services. It is now promoting itself as a company which can do both.
Mr.Jeff Raikes, President of Microsoft business applications division, pooh-poohed theories floated by web majors that software was dying. He said that some of their competitors liked to espouse that idea.
Mr.Raikes said that he thought that they were worried that actually people like a lot of what they had at their fingertips. He said that real success was ti user a combination.
Microsoft is facing tough competition from Google, whose web apps are getting very popular.
