David Rosenthal: belief

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…Big dollars. These small and medium businesses would of course pay for something, but those dollars don’t add up to be nearly as big. Exactly. Google, though, that’s fine. Microsoft can keep all the dollars. All we care about is people use the web. In this instance, particularly with Office and productivity, really this is about putting the screws to Microsoft a little bit and distracting them. From Google’s point of view, this is a cheap distraction. If this gets Microsoft all spun up, Microsoft is now all of a sudden getting asked all the time, what’s your web strategy for office? When are you going to add collaboration to Word and Excel, et cetera, et cetera? They don’t have any answers. I literally worked on this. My internship was at Microsoft and I worked on adding headers and footers to the Microsoft Word web app. We were porting the Windows code to have perfect document fidelity to the web, so when you looked on the web and then print it from the web, the document would be laid out, pixel for pixel, character for character, exactly how it would look on the printed page. When you have that requirement, that is a hard, hard engineering task. It’s still not as good as Google Docs.…

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