After an unsuccessful hostile takeover on Yahoo!, the world's largest software company tries its luck for web domination via the introduction of web-inspired products.
It has recently introduced Microsoft Office Live, a service that makes it more convenient for Microsoft Office users to use their paid for software over the Internet. Google already has Google Docs online and as a defense to being called a copycat, Microsoft says they are only trying to make it simpler for Microsoft Office users to extend the capabilities of their applications online. Well the concept is the same: users save their documents online for sharing and collaborative modification--basically the Google Docs concept.
Another development is Microsoft's introduction of the Silverlight platform in collaboration with Nokia. Silverlight is deemed as a competitor to Adobe's Flash and it will debut on Nokia's high end smart phones that run a Symbian operating system. The Silverlight platform is designed to enable web designers and developers to create rich web applications that are independent on browsers, operating systems, and handsets.
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