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Ask Slashdot: Can Quickoffice On Chromebooks Topple Microsoft's Office?

Posted by Soulskill on from the yes-no-maybe dept.

Nerval's Lobster writes "As we discussed yesterday, Google is bringing a Quickoffice viewer to its new high-end Chromebook Pixel, with full editing ability expected within three months. According to TechCrunch, Quickoffice-on-Chromebooks comes courtesy of Native Client. If Chromebooks prove a hit (and Google ports Quickoffice onto devices other than the ultra-high-priced Chromebook Pixel), could that mean the beginning of the end of Microsoft Office's market dominance of the productivity software space? While Microsoft has been pushing into the cloud with software like Office 365, that's also Google's home territory. But can Google actually disrupt the game?"

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  1. no by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Insert some stupid headline "law" here.

    And then insert some stupid comment about how LibreOffice is awesome (which it is, but in that case, why can't it disrupt MS Office?).

    Insert a comment about how Google is evil (which they are), and how anything that runs in the browser can't be as good as something something mumble something.

    And also, a quick jab about how MS sucks.

  2. Re:So, you think the Pixel is... by jhoegl · · Score: 1, Funny

    Google?

  3. Re:So, you think the Pixel is... by mystikkman · · Score: 3, Funny

    My company has its own intranet, with online document storage and email that works fine with any web browser.

    Local storage on laptops etc is already being deprecated.

    That's a long winded way to say you work at Google.

  4. Re:So, you think the Pixel is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's a long winded way to say you work at Microsoft.