Happy New Year!
I tried to resist, but I just couldn't help but plug MSFT's achilles heel. MSFT is one of the best managed companies that I know of, and it shows in their execution. But, after you get so big you become a target. I am even gunning for them. I believe that NuoMedia has cloned nearly all of the functionality of Exchange server and Outlook 2000 for the retail consumer and the SOHO market. We have cloned over 70% of the practical functionality of the Office 2000 suite. By altering the business model, we are able to give away all of this stuff for free, over the Web complete with file storage, with no obtrusive ads. Now, MSFT is quite capable of doing this, but not without substantial disruption of extant cashflows. Any company of MSFT's stature is highly reliant on market valuation for compensation and acquisition currency. Any disruption of these cash flows, be it real or percieved, is anathema to analysts, hence highly undesirable to the behemoth known as Microsoft.
See the excerpt from the press release below. Your comments are appreciated.
In an effort to commoditize conventional desktop software and reduce the price of pervasive, distributed computing to near zero, NuoMedia.com has released a fully functional public beta of its Web-based Office suite and Group Collaboration Suite which contain:
- Web-based word processors;
- Web-based spreadsheets;
- Web-based presentation graphics;
- Web-base file manager and Web-based file storage;
- Advanced email;
- Group scheduling;
- A centralized address book;
- and built in discussions;
It is totally platform independent (works on any major operating system) and has the ability to transfer data to and from Palm Pilots, Windows CE devices, notebooks, various Internet appliances and desktops. We have successfully replicated much of the functionality of Lotus Notes/Microsoft Exchange for the average Web surfer and the small to medium sized corporation.
Total price: $0
Availability: everywhere there is an Internet connection.
Installation expertise: the ability to click a hyperlink Installation time: 8 minutes on a 56k modem, 20 seconds on a broadband connection (LAN, T1, cable modem).
Create your own Web-based computer at nuomedia.com |
