So Google are now selling apps which I suppose is good news for people who don’t believe software is worth using unless they have to pay for it.

I only use Gmail (and analytics – They are watching you right now) but that’s proof they can make it work – the only webmail system that doesn’t stink (threading, ‘conversations’, keyboard shortcuts, taggable messages, anti-spam that works, stop me when I find something Groupwise/Squirrelmail can do).

I’d jump at the chance to edit word docs/excel spreadsheets online with a decent ajax interface (openoffice is enormous, memory hungry and, frankly, shit).

Rather than wasting time writing a client with ‘enhanced’ functionality, they get the webapp right.

the wonderful thing about Tiggers Gmail

It’s the only one.

You add a feature once and it’s everywhere.
Google talk just appeared one morning, so did spellcheck.

Fixing the recent contact list vulnerability didn’t involve deployment frameworks, software updates or remote imaging.

All users get the fix at once (the number of machines infected with 4 year old outlook viruses is unbelievable). You don’t have to worry about supporting old versions. Piracy is an impossibility.

And people still wonder if Microsoft should be worried?