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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:Damn slashdot submitters! by Simon+(S2) · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I don't see any picture below...

    Just read the article :)

    I hate it when story submitters just copy and paste from other news articles, not even giving them credit.

    Huh? There is a link in the blurb. Did you see it?

    It occasionally causes phrases that don't make sense, like this one.

    Oh well. Sorry for that.
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  2. Google Images is DOWN!!! by rupam_phukan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=slashdot&s a=N&tab=wi Google Images is DOWN!!! You end up getting a 404 error.

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  3. Sticking it to Microsoft means... by gevantry · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...um...creating another something like Microsoft. Knocking Microsoft down a few pegs just means somebody else gets bigger and protective about its market turf, and they start acting like MS, which is just acting like any other big,rich, successful company protecting it market turf so that it can continue to be big, rich, and successful. So Google becomes Fuggle and everybody stops flipping off MS and flips the fuggie sign at them, getting stuck for sticking it to MS.