Perhaps because Google is not doing too well with YouTube it has decided to see if it can go after the richest franchise in software history. The new premium version of Google desktop software which has e-mail, document and spreadsheet functions will license for $50 and come with support. Microsoft’s product in this space is Office, which has 450 million users.
The only advantage the Google product, Apps Premier Edition, seems to have over Microsoft is cost. Business users are used to the features of the Microsoft products and their ubiquity makes the interaction of enterprise computers around the world fairly seamless.
Google may just be wasting time.
Douglas A. McIntyre can be reached at [email protected]. He does not own securities in companies that he writes about.
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