Online Office Applications or Desktop Applications

I found an interesting article regarding Online Office Applications versus Standard Office applications at Ars Technica. The whole purpose of Web 2.0 is move the applications you would normally click on Start > Programs to access onto the Internet. Google is accelerating the release of Web Apps and has successfully ported a worthy e-mail client.

Here are some online (cloud) applications that you should check out.

Office Suites

• Zoho
• Google Apps

Customer Relationship Management

• SalesForce
• 37 Signals
• Remember the Milk
• Kayako

Accounting

• Intuit Billing Manager
• Quicken Online
• Quickbooks Online

With popular devices such as iPhone, and ultra small laptops. We are entering a revolution where processing power will no longer be king. It only makes sense because computers has pretty much saturated the market to the point that households like mine have (5) amd counting. I like the fact that I can whip out a phone and perform tasks that were once confined to a computer.

The cost of DATA is becoming cheaper and easier to access now that phones and Internet tablets have the processing power of capable PC’s or old. Add to that video game systems that can easily convert to computers, and I will go out on a limb and say software will begin losing major marketshare as cloud computing takes off.