We still have a group leaving on June 18, but in July everything is suspended," indows 7 could be… tactile! ( WTF? ) Hello ! I have just finished reading a fascinating article from Indexel, which traces the consolidation of the online application market around four players: Google, Yahoo, Adobe and Zoho. Note also that the offline mode has appeared in all suites. It currently relies most often on Google Gears while waiting for the next generation of browsers. Here's what they say: Google and Adobe enter the dance “From a general point of view.
The market has even rather consolidated around image manipulation service big players such as Google and Yahoo. Absent at the time, Google has since developed its own online spreadsheet, presentation software, and acquired Writely, the forerunner of online word processors. Launched in August 2005, Writely was acquired in March 2006 by Google, in the midst of the Web 20 boom Google will later combine its spreadsheet and word processor with a new online Calendar launched in April 2006. Google Mail released in April 2004, and are now also part of the suite Google Apps.
Yahoo & Microsoft “Among the other publishers that we presented to you at the time, Zimbra was bought by Yahoo in September 2007. More than an office suite, Yahoo is gradually building a suite of collaborative applications intended for the general public. He first bought the photo sharing site Flickr and delicious which allows you to share your favorites. And it was only last summer that Gtalk instant messaging available since August 2005 Yahoo launched into the battle for online office suites by acquiring Zimbra.