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Google Declares War on Microsoft

Posted by Zonk on from the they-will-fight-them-in-the-spreadsheets dept.

hajmola writes "According to an article in The Inquirer, 'Google has confirmed that it will launch free spreadsheet and word-processing software online and take on Microsoft in one of its biggest markets. Under the deal, Google will allow web users to access Sun's OpenOffice from a toolbar.'" This is full confirmation of a story from Tuesday. Forbes thinks this isn't anything to write home about, while InfoWorld disagrees.

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  1. Re:Huh? by hazee · · Score: 0, Troll

    Actually, a sizeable fraction of the world's population do not have a reliable electricity connection to their home. I'm not assuming that everyone is like me - you did that (and got it wrong).

    All I'm saying is that attacking a network-based app for not working without a network is about as stupid as attacking a computer for not working without electricity.

    If for whatever reason, a network-based office suite isn't suitable, don't use it. Nobody's forcing you to. Use a locally-installed app instead.

  2. Forbes by SQLz · · Score: 0, Troll
    Forbes thinks this isn't anything to write home about..

    Thats because Forbes is nothing but a bunch of paid Microsoft lackeys who haven't had an original article with any insight since the winter of 82'

  3. Re:Gmail Cannot Replace Office by Skreems · · Score: 0, Troll

    They're not a great achievement at all. RTF editing capabilities are built into the major browsers, all that gmail has to do is pass some control commands from the buttons ("setBold()", "setColor()", etc). The builtin editor type takes care of the rest of it. I or any other competent javascript programmer could implement the same thing in about 2 days.

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  4. web application is O.K. by chrisnewbie · · Score: 0, Troll

    Web software is good but in house software.
    If microsoft thinks that it can make their office and O.S strickly work on-line and make the end-user pay per use .he's bound to get lawsuit from everyone or people will change OS all together, it's going to be cheaper to make peopel learn something that looks like MS than paying them for everything.

    Bill Gates is one crazy ass