After having turned the web into its favorite domain, Google launched several WebApps dedicated to customers, and turning their computers into a terminal as software and required computing tasks are running on Google servers. Adobe decided to follow by offering light version of its key application as WebApps, as well as promoting its Flash format.
Microsoft could be strongly impacted if Google and Adobe WebApps become so popular that end users will not need to have MS Office installed locally on their computers. In a recent interview, Steve Ballmer indicates that a "cloud version" of Office/Windows should arrive soon. If this is the strategy followed by most of the key players, will Apple have to follow? Not necessarily. If one looks at MobileMe, one can already identify the first stones of a potential WebApps suite, and by simply adding some functions and defined applications over time, it could at the end offer an online iLife-light service to Mac users (most likely restricted to MobileMe accou
