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That was the partnership with Sun, and I seriously wonder if Google could’ve pulled the online word processing thing off, especially since in the growing economies (read demand), users don’t have access to such bandwidth all the time. Also, I haven’t heard about it for quite a while, but what I have heard about is the new partnership with IBM, and this could be the really deadly one for Microsoft.

The deal right now is to basically index all content on IBM servers, but getting speculative and perhaps somewhat paranoid, what are IBM’s core strengths? Servers, processors, database management, and of course, they have the fastest supercomputer in the world. Could Google use any of this? Of course, it could use everything. In fact, if you notice, Google has a huge array of servers that keep all its data, search caches and perform other necessary tasks to deliver results. If Google harnesses IBM’s prowess at building supercomputers out of simple clusters, Google could be looking at some serious computing power.

In fact, IBM, Google and Sun could all be partners in the online office suite project. Sun and Google could surely do the software part, as Google could provide the hardware (Sun sponsored maybe?) and IBM and Sun could proceed with all their brilliance and put together a seriously fast cluster.

Microsoft doesn’t want to go online, not yet anyway and believes firmly in the PC being the center of your digital world. But the point is, if my digital world can be with me on the go, via Google’s free Wi-Fi, running free (or at least at extremely low cost) applications straight off the net, then I become the center of my digital world and that’s exactly how it should be, which could, for all we know, be the reason for Microsoft’s downfall.