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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.""

3 of 184 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What good? by lixee · · Score: 3, Informative

    Probably something a little less buggy than OpenOffice and a lot cheaper than M$ Office.

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  2. Re:Damn slashdot submitters! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes there is a picture of John Battelle below.

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  3. The Unofficial Web Applications List by Sundroid · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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