And in this corner...

While Narthex covered the two interesting infosec developments today, I was very interested to see confirmation of the OpenOffice/Google rumors hit the wire.

I can't help but wonder what impact this might have on Microsoft's office productivity suite dominance. At first glance, it's an awesome concept, but at the same time, OpenOffice is available for free today, as a downloadable installer. And while I use it at home - I don't use office software enough to justify the cost of MS Office - I can't say I'm overly impressed by it. Sure, it works, and it even opens Word docs, but it doesn't do that terribly well. Now granted, putting access to apps in the browser is interesting, but will folks actually use it? And how well is that going to work on dial up, or even low end broadband?

Time will tell.

In the meantime, I doubt Microsoft is sweating... yet.