 Google Soon To Step Into Online Word Processing |
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 Apr 13 2006, 10:42 AM
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Advanced Member  Group: Members Posts: 144 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Nakorn Chaisri, Thailand Member No.: 3,864  |
Hi guys,
[/tab]I came across this site called Writely - which offers you an online browser-based Word Processor, quite similar to what Microsoft is trying to offer in it's Windows Live. What suddenly caught my notice was this one single line right below their site logo that says - QUOTE [tab]Digging further I came upon this article at Red Herring describing Google's buyout of this company and the subsequent assimilation of this into the Google system.. My guess is soon enough we'll find Google making a public announcement about stepping into this arena... When Microsoft is at it, Google can't be far behind.. can it ? QUOTE Google Buys Writely The search company strikes at Microsoft by acquiring a web-based Word competitor. March 9, 2006 In an overt challenge to Microsoft, search giant Google said Thursday it had acquired Writely, an online word processing tool, for an undisclosed amount. Writely, a project of Upstartle, functions much like Microsoft Word but in a web browser. The online environment allows for collaboration between multiple authors and the benefit of someone else hosting your document. The four employees of the Portola Valley, California-based company, which has not disclosed any outside funding, will move a couple exits south to Mountain View, California-based Google. In a post on Google’s blog, Writely’s Jen Mazzon said “many thousands of people” had used Writely, which debuted in a beta version at the end of August 2005. She said the software would not be available to additional users until it had been moved onto Google’s systems. Upstartle CEO Sam Schillace said, “We’re absolutely thrilled,” but declined further comment. Read more at: http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=1...rnetAndServices Free signup at the Writely site has been temporarily shut down while their system is being migrated to Google. Funny thing is I'd have NEVER come across this Writely site, unless it was for those little newsflashes in Google Desktop !! That's how I found Writely - thinking that - "Oh! Cool.. another online WP... let me check it out." 
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Apr 13 2006, 11:29 AM
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Ancient Enigma  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 1,753 Joined: 11-July 04 From: under the stars Member No.: 76 |
where have you been, micro!?
 this topic has been in trap17 forums since a month ago, at least. well, speculations here are more of an entire suite of G-Office kind of thing online applications, not just the word processor from writely.
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Apr 13 2006, 11:34 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 144 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Nakorn Chaisri, Thailand Member No.: 3,864 |
Eeeeeks.. hehe.. a little too late.
Been travelling a lot recently.
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Apr 13 2006, 08:28 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 202 Joined: 7-November 05 Member No.: 13,928 |
Guess google tries too hard to be everything for everybody but my guess is that in this matter if the office suite will be free we'll have another gogle product winner...they're hard to get beaten...we'll see.
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Apr 15 2006, 12:10 AM
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Privileged Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 848 Joined: 23-December 05 Member No.: 16,099 |
Dunno where you've been for the last few months, but it's been up for a while. It would be interesting had they released it to compete against Micro$oft though lo.
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Apr 15 2006, 12:39 AM
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Member [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 78 Joined: 16-March 06 Member No.: 20,150 |
Wow its about time google does something like that, hopefully it will be free, well ofcourse it will be but will i still need to use Microsoft Office? As it takes up some space that i could use for games. This will be very interesting to see how it turns out and how popular it is though.
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Apr 15 2006, 01:23 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 1,161 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Brisbane, QLD Member No.: 6,818 |
Why do you think MS still can't get IE7 to conform to the same level of W3C standards as every other browser? Because they're trying to hold back the development of the Internet to make it harder for companies like Google to steal their marketshare in desktop apps.
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Apr 16 2006, 12:13 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 202 Joined: 7-November 05 Member No.: 13,928 |
They're forced now to comply to some extent that anyway make the AJAX platform viable even on IE7 so i guess nothing is gonna stop Google from what they want to do, perhaps only the fact that not everybody has broadband internet access to get quick responses and real-time complicated editing (??). But i'll be glad to see what comes next
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Apr 16 2006, 01:07 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 313 Joined: 28-March 06 Member No.: 20,865 |
the only drawback of onine word processors is they are less stable by nature. take yahoo or hotmail's compose for email, sometimes you'll hit delete emaning to delete the word and the browser will go back a page
 Then you've lost all that text you've put in. |