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.""

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So, why does M$ hate Google?

[twitter]

This Forbes article noticed that Google searches were good and speculated that Google would get into web applications and that this is why Microsoft hated Google. So they are not getting into applications, why does Bill Gates hate them so?

Bill Gates is a paranoid loser, that's why. He's got more than enough money. He's got more than enough power. But he still let's other people's excellence bother him. Ha ha ha, he'll never be happy and that is what a loser is.

Congrats /.

[evilviper]

I would just like to congratulate Slashdot. You've successfully managed to turn no story at all, into two seperate stories...

Since I started here, slashdot started accepting ads, there have been DDoS attacks, numerous other outages, break-ins, an increasing number of trolls, crapflooders, page-widening spam, M2, and the whole moderation system has repeatedly fallen flat on it's face... But it was all worth it to see a story posted about Google every single day, even when there's isn't any actual story.

*sniff* I promised myself I wouldn't cry... *sniff*

Re:What good?

[jez9999]

core functionality would be free, probably ad-driven

Unfortunately, greedy Firefoxers with AdBlock would take care of that. (I am not one such person)