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No Office Suite Google

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the probably-more-than-a-twenty-percent-project dept.

Simon (S2) writes "Google co-founder Sergey Brin has quashed speculation that the giant ad broker is to introduce a web-based Office suite. "We don't have any plans," he told Web 2.0 conference organizer John Battelle (pictured below). However Brin left the door open a little. Documents would be easier to work with in the future, he promised, but he didn't think a fat client was the way to go. "I don't really think that the thing is to take a previous generation of technology and port them directly," he told Battelle. However distributed thin web applications allowed you to do "new and better things than the Office package and more.""

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  1. Re:Why Not? by andersbergh · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, although then I suppose Microsoft would provide "MSN Office"!

  2. OMGWTFPDQLMNOP?!?!?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Posted last nite? And here it is this morning? That's like, hours! I can't believe they sat on such an earth-shaking story for so long.

  3. No Office Suite, Google? by rebug · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sprinkle in some punctuation and it makes sense.

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  4. Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. by Hey+Pope+Felcher+.+. · · Score: 1, Funny

    . . . you accidently logged into Slashdot's 'for the blind' section.

  5. Re:No Office Suite Google by moviepig.com · · Score: 4, Funny
    ...shouldn't the headline be "No Google Office Suite"? What is up with the awkward word order?

    We yearned, yet the Fates took a pass.
    No Office, sweet Google? Alas...

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  6. Re:WebNotepad? by Durinthal · · Score: 2, Funny

    WebNotepad?

    I believe that's called IRC.

  7. Re:You are overestimating the effort by thrillseeker · · Score: 2, Funny
    Creating something like a simple web-based word processor is certainly within the realm of possibility. Unfortunately, the implementation ends up being a Rube Goldberg machine of clunky technologies duct-taped together into a horribly convoluted, difficult to maintain, spaghetti-code mess.

    No, no ... we're not talking about MS Office.

  8. Re:No Office Suite Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    mod parent up, +5 arcane vernacular, default meter with epic diction ironically employed in the orthodox register for funny mod

  9. Hey that's great non-news! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Really, who gives a fuck?