Synchronization — Microsoft and Google
Posted by Jacque on June 12th, 2007
Can Microsoft Be the Wrench in Google Gears?
Is synchronization the killer app that will determine whether desktop software maintains its relevance or the Web becomes the more popular platform?
Google Gears attempts to provide software developers with a means of offering offline access to just about any online content. Essential to the whole concept is synchronization, where content would automatically synch in either direction.
“Microsoft should worry lots more about universal synchronization than it does. Microsoft offers too many synchronization mechanisms that simply don’t play well together, if at all” says Joe Wilcox at eWeek’s Microsoft Watch.
