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Google Enters Web-Office Market

By Chris
Created 2006-03-13 18:31
Writely [1]
 

Online office applications are becoming a reality. Google already has a partership with Sun Microsystems [2] (openoffice.org [3]). Google seems to enter the Web-Office market : it just acquired Writely, the Web Word Processor [4].

Writely [5] 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 [6]. One example is an online spreadsheet system, Num Sum [7]. This seems the beginning of a new area, and Microsoft seems to understand that, with its recent Office Live, Windows Live [8] and Windows Live Search [9] initiatives.

Let's the competition begin :-)

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http://blog.publicityweb.com/blog/node/271

Links:
[1] http://blog.publicityweb.com/blog/node/272
[2] http://www.sun.com/
[3] http://www.openoffice.org/
[4] http://www.writely.com/
[5] http://www.writely.com/
[6] http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=123
[7] http://numsum.com/
[8] http://www.live.com/
[9] http://blog.publicityweb.com/blog/node/267
[10] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/
[11] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/writely-so.html
[12] http://www.writely.com/
[13] http://writely.blogspot.com/2006/03/google-yep-google.html
[14] http://www2.writely.com/info/WritelyOverflowFAQ.htm#Google
[15] http://www.zdnet.com/
[16] http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=123
[17] http://numsum.com/