Check this out. Microsoft Blogger-in-Chief, Robert Scoble picked up my last post and responded within hours.

And then he went on about how Microsoft is applying an agile approach to development. Scoble also makes a really good point about the implications of the hyper-fast agile approach.

The question is, can you move a massive team like the ones that develop Office and Windows to a scrum model where you ship every few months and get feedback on the new stuff that’s added, and then turn around and ship again.

Can customers deal with such a model? I don’t think so. Why? Deployment. Scrum is great for a model where deploying is just pushing new bits out to a small set of machines. Ala a Web site. But it’s not good for when you need people to download bits, and install them

And with that, I think Scoble has just explained why traditional corporate IT is on its death bed, and why Web Office is going to be inevitably delivered through an ASP model.

How can traditional corporate IT keep up with Google, Microsoft, SalesForce.com, LinkedIn, etc.

And why would traditional corporate IT even want to?