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Online office applications are becoming a reality. Google already has a partership with Sun Microsystems (openoffice.org). Google seems to enter the Web-Office market : it just acquired Writely, the Web Word Processor.

Writely is a successfull (web 2.0) online word processor. You can access, edit and share document from anywhere, with a simple (recent) browser. Great idea. It was a Microsoft dream years ago (but this one is free, for now at least).

Previous users can continue to use the service. But new registrations are blocked, until it is integrated in the Google registration system.

There are other Web 2.0 Office products. One example is an online spreadsheet system, Num Sum. This seems the beginning of a new area, and Microsoft seems to understand that, with its recent Office Live, Windows Live and Windows Live Search initiatives.

Let's the competition begin :-)

Refs

• Google blog: Writely so
• Writely, the Web Word Processor
• Blog: Google? Yep, Google!
• Writely FAQ : Google
• ZDnet: Web Office Suite: best of breed products
• Num Sum : Easy, Sharable Web Spreadsheets