A bas le roi!
The first week of class with Dr. Gillette in ICS 602 we discussed his feelings about "A bas le roi" or a notion of eliminating tyranny of architecture. I read a story on cnn.com today about Google rolling out the rival to Microsoft's popular business and academic presentation software - PowerPoint.
http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/18/technology/bc.apfn.googlesoftware.ap/index.htm
This connects with the notion of down with tyranny and architecture. Microsoft currently has a tyranny on software, but with Google "taking over the world," they might be forced to reconsider what they offer and how they offer it.
Google offers a document package (http://www.google.com/google-d-s/tour1.html) with word processing, spreadsheets, and most recently, their own version of PowerPoint. When people have options, the companies that offer these options are often required to adapt to the wishes of the consumer and to compete with the other companies in the market.
I don't know how everyone else feels about the monopoly that Microsoft has, but I for one am glad to see options and competition coming into the limelight.
Comments
CD
good comment
correct typo in second line
tyranny on architecture
to tyranny of architecture
many people think MS has too big a monopoly. European Union thinks the 95% market share would be better at 50% or less
we owe you a penny
JEG
Posted by: JEG | September 22, 2007 07:09 PM