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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. Re:Compatibility by msbsod · · Score: -1, Troll

    Of course, why not?!

    And what kind of idiot mods my posting about a software compatibility issue as flamebait?

  2. Re:Compatibility by msbsod · · Score: 1, Troll

    Why not? I see enough applications of this idea. Just because the technical implementation is bad doesn't mean the whole idea is worthless.

  3. Re:First by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Another stroke of genius by Eric "Fucking Pussy" Schmidt.

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    Mods, can I get an 'Informative' or 'Insightful' for this?

  4. Re:Compatibility by msbsod · · Score: -1, Troll

    Microsoft ActiveX was never a necessity for the web. Neither were cookies or javascript. Same about Macromedia flash etc.. It is all about the ignorance of people who do not know how to develop HTML-based web applications. And you seem to be one of those poor minds.

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  6. Re:Login Info by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Typical slashdoter posting an incorrect informative comment in an attempt respond to themselves and get more karma.

  7. Re:ActiveX instead? by msbsod · · Score: -1, Troll

    Everything is in place since the introduction of forms some five years ago (HTML 4).

  8. Re:ActiveX instead? by msbsod · · Score: 0, Troll

    http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/writely-so. html
    "Writely, a collaborative word processor that runs in a web browser."
    WYSIWYG is nice, but is it the most important thing for a collaborative word processor that runs in a web browser? Maybe for you. Compatibility and simplicity is more important for me.