A couple weeks ago the Sunday NY Times business section had a long article about Google vs. Microsoft. Part of the conflict is a paradigm collision between people who see their productivity happening mainly on a local machine, versus those who see it happening mainly on-line.
(Of course that's not just a Google-Microsoft thing. You can add Apple to the "local machine" paradigm and a variety of web companies to the other side.)
Anyway, I think one of the best pieces of concrete evidence in favor of web-based computing is Microsoft Outlook (and everything wrong with it). [N.B. I have never used Leopard, so I have no idea how good Apple's e-mail client is apart from my high esteem for the developer(s) in question.]
Posted by Matt Bruce at December 31, 2007 01:17 PM