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Google Office Still in the Wings?

Posted by Hemos on from the Remember-ASPS?-they're-back dept.

Rob writes "Ajax Office, a proposed project to create an open source, web-based suite of office applications, has fallen by the wayside. But the project's founder Paolo Massa is convinced that not only will there be successful open source projects in the space, but that it is only a matter of time before the likes of Google or Yahoo! launch a web-based office suite of their own - going up against Microsoft Office but in the online sphere. "If you think about it, it would mean having access to your office documents from any browser," he told Computer Business Review, outlining his view that a provider could enable the creation and storage of office documents on their web servers. "I think someone will do this within a year," he said."

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  1. Think of the fanfics! by dancingmad · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who would want to keep their Buffy/Faye lemons...err, important business documents on someone else's server?

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  2. Fantastic! by generic-man · · Score: 5, Funny

    OpenOffice.org is a passable imitation of Microsoft Office, but I think it would be really great if someone rewrote everything in JavaScript and let me run it inside a web browser instead of a mature desktop operating system.

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    1. Re:Fantastic! by baadger · · Score: 3, Funny
      "...but what if the internet goes down...? Do you just stop working?"


      No usually that's when I start working.
  3. I want a Google wife by gelfling · · Score: 4, Funny

    And a Google car, a Googledog and I want to clone myself on Google; Google Self.

    1. Re:I want a Google wife by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I hear that the ladies can already get a husband with gmale.

    2. Re:I want a Google wife by varmittang · · Score: 1, Funny

      Are you sure you want everyone on the planet to be able to do a search of your wife?

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    3. Re:I want a Google wife by Linker3000 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Google porn: Google Ogle and Goodle Fondle
      Google dogs: Google Poodle and Google Beagle
      Online learning environment: Google Moodle
      Google pasta: Google Noodle
      Goodle drawing app: Google Doodle
      Childrens' songs: Polly Wolly Google
      Google pastries: Google Strudel

      I have work to do...

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    4. Re:I want a Google wife by Hosiah · · Score: 1, Funny

      Yuk! Yuk! No, wait, I got one! An extension to gmail that let's you find the best pr0n quickly: g-string!

    5. Re:I want a Google wife by Linker3000 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Sorry, forgot a few:

      More pastries: Google bagel
      Online auction site: Google haggle
      Booze and cigarattes cross-border: Google Smuggle

      Oh, these pauses as I wait for the mail server to delete multiple copies of archived files are handy! (I've just found 3961 x 2.5MB instances of the same file archived on the same day due to a queue processing error!!)

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    6. Re:I want a Google wife by TedCheshireAcad · · Score: 2, Funny

      Google Goons: We used to arrange all the world's information. Now we's gonna re-arrange your face. Pay up, sucka.

    7. Re:I want a Google wife by fbg111 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yep, and he uses gspot to satisfy them...

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  4. Re:It was called myWebOs by hey! · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why?

    Because WebOs wobbles but it don't fall down.

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  5. HOLY CRAP YOU'RE AWESOME! by jeffs72 · · Score: 1, Funny

    I had no idea gmail was SSL enabled as an option. YOU ROCK!

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  6. Re:Forget Word by HermanAB · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yup, I think we should throw all the intermediate cruft out and make a really simple system - one with a keyboard that prints directly on the paper. Then we can eliminate the screen and storage too and instead of paying $3000 for a PC and printer combo, all people would need is a simple $50 machine.

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  7. eyeOS got potential but. by krestenk · · Score: 4, Funny

    Seems nifty and all. Why doesn't it have a web browser ? Come on an OS without a browser, just wont make it. A browser would make it able to run, this new online operating system. With office suit and all, although it doesn't have a browser.

  8. How about Google Google? by Random+BedHead+Ed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Google google is fine for google, however for web apps google google would be very easy for Google. But what about Google Google? Google google google would be Google's to google. Consider:

    1. Google
    2. Google
    3. Yahoo, MSN? No, Google!

    Google Google - the google of the google google.

    Right, that should cover this week's upcoming tech news pretty succinctly.

  9. Great! by Peldor · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've always wanted automatically placed subject-related ads in my inter-office memos.

  10. Re:Internet connection failed by geoffspear · · Score: 3, Funny
    You forgot the part where it went "beep beep beep bleep beep".

    It was a really good paper.

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  11. Re:WTF? by Peridriga · · Score: 4, Funny

    LMAO Hahah

    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/04/123422 9&tid=102&tid=217