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Office if necessary, not necessarily Office

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

What started with a rumour last night - which Om Malik (among others) wrote about - has become fact: Google has acquired Writely.com, which provides something approaching an online version of Microsoft Word. Needless to say, this has revived talk about the much-rumoured Google “%3 ... Continue reading »

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  • Scott Lawton

    3 years ago

    One of the most interesting views on "good enough" comes from Clayton Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma book (and subsequent work). Key point: as products get better and better, they often overshoot what most users need, so something that does less (and costs less) can disrupt the market leader.
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  • Jack Yan

    3 years ago

    If it weren’t for this acquisition, I would not have known about Writely. Breaking the hold MS has with Office can only be a good thing—I have stuck with the WordPerfect Suite because I cannot figure out how to use Word. (For instance, that whole paragraph-changes-margin-and-font-thing when you hit return makes little sense to me.) If Writely is more logical, and that isn’t hard to be, then it may well get converts left, write, and centre (misspelling intended).
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