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Sep 18 2007 12:00am EDT
While EU Plays Monopoly, Microsoft Gets More Competition
Kind of interesting, huh? A day after the European Union rules that Microsoft used its (one-time) monopoly power illegally, two more significant challenges to the software giant took wing. IBM says it will begin offering a suite of business applications, like word processing and spreadsheets, over the Net -- for free.
And Google, which already offers Google Docs and Google Spreadsheet, announced free online presentation software that will challenge Microsoft's absolutely dominant PowerPoint.
Whatever governments try to do, there is no such thing as a permanent position of power in the technology industry. Just ask IBM, Digital Equipment, Lotus, AOL...
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