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Who, us? An Office suite? Never.

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

Ever since Google first launched things like “apps for your domain” and bought Writely, CEO Eric Schmidt and others have been singing the same song: namely, that the Internet behemoth has no intention of putting together a competitor to Microsoft Office. At the Web 2.0 ... Continue reading »

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  • Vanessa Williams

    2 years ago

    I think Mary Jo Foley is dead-on about businesses not wanting to store data in the cloud. It's a fact. And while Paul K. may be right about SMB's preferring this over paying the full cost of MS Office, there are other ways to do this (OpenOffice, for example), which are a) free, and b) don't force you to turn over your business communications to a third-party.

    There is surely room for all these sorts of solutions, and new types we haven't seen (much of) yet, besides.

    It's tempting to search for a single, elegant, unified theory of network-centric applications, but unifiying the desktop and the web may turn out to be like unifying general relativity and quantum mechanics: a real brain-bender.
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  • Mathew

    2 years ago

    Thanks for the comment, Vanessa. I still think the answer is apps and services that blend online and offline, the way that Zoho is trying to. That's where I expect Google to go next -- and perhaps Microsoft as well. I certainly would be if I were them.
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  • Raju Vegesna

    2 years ago

    Google certainly doesn't want to call themselves an office suite...but when you search for 'Online Office' in Google, the first ad that comes up is 'Office tools from Google' :)
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