The battle between Microsoft and Google is coming

The next major market "distruption" in computer programs is coming. MicroSoft recognizes it and is getting ready to adapt to the new business environment. Instead of bundled programs MicroSoft will shift towards internet services.

Internet services represent a more open, competitive model. "Software itself is going to be free, and you get paid for services that are supported either by ads or by subscription charges," said Mitchell Kapor, the founder of Lotus Development who is president of the Open Source Applications Foundation, which develops free software for personal information like calendars and contacts. "For Microsoft, this is a bigger challenge than the rise of the Internet itself in 1995."

Go read the article at CNet. It is a glimpse of the future of computers and the internet.

Oh, and MicroSoft will not be going away.