Let us live in an interesting times

We live in an interesting time. Google dominates the web, Microsoft dominates the desktop. Google builds an online Google Office currently made out of Documents, Spreadsheets and Presentation. Microsoft is #3 web property and wants to buy Yahoo, going after web ad market which is currently Google's. Microsoft has 80% of the browsers market.

So there is a titan's battle we shall be watching. For me, who is both a user of both companies' products, and a developer using both companies' platforms for applications I develop, the time is double exciting.

Both companies want you on their site. Both want you to extend their products with useful add-ons, mashups, whatever. Both want to become the platform of tomorrow. And there should be a winner, at least one.

Both powers make quick moves. The moves that change the competitive landscape for us small ISVs.

So one has to watch it closely and try to figure out how exactly a small fry like I am can manage to survive in the heat of the superpowers nuking each other.
The war like this, there is always an opportunity. One can get rich taking sides, if of cause he is not get killed by the stray bullet intended to someone else.