Walt Mossberg – For iPad and Mobile Devices, a “Port” out of the Norm
Microsoft must respond “quickly and decisively” to the threat that online software poses to its business, wrote Microsoft’s chief software architect in an internal memo. That was two and a half years ago. To date, Microsoft’s efforts to develop Internet-based versions of the software it sells to businesses have been anything but decisive, leaving cynics to wonder whether the company is committed to the shift.
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