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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."

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  1. pieces of a puzzle... by pvt_medic · · Score: 5, Interesting

    While there is great debate about googles master plan or if it has one. The whole concept that they make things and then try to make them profitable. The more i see their actions the more a threat to almost every element of the PC industry they present.
    1-Online Storage
    2-Office Suite Program
    3-Data Search
    4-E-Mail, Chat
    5-Entertainment (Video, Photos)
    6-Online Sales ?7?-Games?? (is this a possibility down the line) A large sector with big potential

    I'll be honest I am one who thinks that eventually we are going to be returning to dummy terminals, a lot of these items would support that. I think they have a bigger plan, and I think we are beginning to see pieces that fit together. But also they have one or two more cards they havent played yet.

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  2. Re:Writely Technology? by pebs · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Writely is based upon ASP.NET.
    Will this save them appreciable time? They will have to do a rewrite or be based on Microsoft technology (yeah, right).

    I doubt they will do a rewrite. Probably get it running in Mono/Linux if anything. Orkut is written in ASP.Net, but I believe they run it in Mono/Linux.

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