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Google Enters Web-Office Market

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the looking-forward-to-online-clippy dept.

jaiva writes "Google's official blog tells us that Google has acquired Writely, a collaborative word processor." From the article: "To be clear, Writely is still in beta, and it's far from perfect. Upholding our great user experience means everything to us, so we're not accepting new registrations until we've moved Writely to Google's software architecture. If you're interested in giving us a try, we hope you'll get on the waitlist so we can let you know when you'll be able to try out Writely."

4 of 232 comments (clear)

  1. It's in beta? Great. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    In other news, Google releases a new slogan:

    "What starts in beta, stays in beta"

  2. This is obvious... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 5, Funny

    To be clear, Writely is still in beta, and it's far from perfect.

    A perfect into the Google product line.

  3. Writely rites good! by LiftOp · · Score: 5, Funny
    Spelchecker needs werk.

    Love, Gogle Developmint Teem

  4. What's old is new... by ferd_farkle · · Score: 5, Funny

    "a collaborative word processor that runs in a web browser"

    This sort of app is awfully reminiscent of The World Wide Web, written by Tim Berners-Lee at Cern a while back. Anything ever come of that...?