Microsoft Office 365 launches tomorrow, and now that I see the marketing video I think that the Skype acquisition makes a lot more sense.
Microsoft Office 365 Video
My big question is how open with Office 365 be? Will outside developers be able to write to and interact with all the Office services? I get the feeling MSFT is trying to do everything – file sharing, collaboration, cloud content management & storage, webinar hosting… it’s a lot. I can’t imagine all of it will be best of breed. So many customers will likely want to supplement weaker offerings with outside developed programs. If MSFT if open they may lose a little revenue, but will likely actually grow the pie and increase stickiness… we’ll see how this plays out.
