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No Office Suite Google
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.""
Probably something a little less buggy than OpenOffice and a lot cheaper than M$ Office.
Res publica non dominetur
The concept, if delivered properly, would deliver web based groupware (we know, it already exists), with the centralized documents (also aware that it exists), along with cross-platform document editing (exists, again), without installing any new applications (a new one!). While it's got a lot of "wow" factor, none of it is really revolutionary, but people seem to flock to anything Google puts their name on.
Yes there is a picture of John Battelle below.
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Whether Google plans to plunge into the web-based office suite or not, we don't know, but others have started to create web-based applications like Writely (word processing), Num Sum (spreadsheet), and Writeboard, and most of them use AJAX technology. This site called "The Unofficial Web Applications List" lists dozens of them.
Sun and Fun
Preferatbly 'informative'. Anyone who's seen the article in question would realise he has a point! I'd mod the AC up, but I'm afraid any moderation would be seen as incorrect and I wanted to point this out.
The picture is of Battelle sticking up his middle finger at the camera.
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When was the last time YOU used it?
http://www.writely.com/NextPage - 404
When it's already done ?