Right now we are in the phase of huge transition in a way we do our work on computers. Hordes of users are moving from Desktop applications to Web apps.
Web2.0 applications have taken internet users by storm. The internet usage has increased dramatically, thanks to Social Networking and tons of free online Web2.0 apps that are making life much easier for the users.
Six months back I bought a personal laptop for myself; it did not have much of software except Vista O.S. To be honest with you, I, not once felt a need to get any of the software – including Microsoft office. Where was the need for me, when I have good amount of free choices available on the web that go beyond serving my purpose.
And this is not the case only with individual users. A lot of companies are pushing their web applications to large businesses and corporate users too.
Take example of Google itself. Just a couple of days back Capgemini announced that it will offer services supporting Google Apps, an enterprise collaboration solution offered by Google.
What does this mean? If software solutions companies like Capgemini start giving support for Google Apps, number of large corporates too will get interested, as it offers extremely cost effective solution.
It is not only Google, take Zoho for instance, they recently announced its Business suite of Zoho Web tools.
The personal edition of Zoho is available free of cost to the users and it has everything a individual user will ever need – Email, Chat, Sheet, writer, notebook, show and host of others.
It will not be long before we see most users replacing their Desktops with WebTops!
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WEB 2.0 is indeed here to stay and even mainstream companies like Reliance are jumping into the bandwagon with social networking sites. Everyday we see the launch of half a dozen sites on diverse topics ranging from citizen journalism to page 3, besides the usual video sharing youtube clones. The million dollar question is, how many of these sites will actually make the cut and how many will go kaput within the next 2-3 years.