Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 10th Mar 2006 12:33 UTC, submitted by BryanFeeney
The long talked about Google Office is taking shape. At the same time as TechCrunch has displayed screenshots of a possible Google Calendar called CL2, Google has announced that it has acquired Writely, an online, collaborative word-processor creating using JavaScript and DHTML. Documents are saved online (perhaps in Google's rumoured GDrive). Of particular interest is that GMail, when paired with CL2, provides a decent alternative to Exchange/Outlook, and it was only in November that Google annnounced GMail for Domains, a system whereby Google acts as a company's mail server, but uses the companies own domain name for the email address.
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2005-07-14
Bravo for Google. They know what people want. A computer is not a box I have to administer, it's a set of services and media. Space-shifting that to their servers helps me in several ways ...
1) compatibility gains:
Now compatibility simply means having a browser that supports the necessary functions. That's a lot easier than traditional software requirements.
2) mobility gains:
Now I can access my media and services from anywhere with an Internet connection and a capable client.
3) maintenance gains:
Gradually the computer experience should become less about what I like to call "housekeeping" (updating, patching, spyware and virus scanning, partitioning, defragging, organizing, optimizing, installing the missing libraries, etc.) and more about something that "just works". (Think read-only USB keys with Firefox)
Perhaps Google will be the first company to actually realize the *old* network computer saying "The network IS the computer."
PS
By the way, I think I called this (more or less) back in February...
See my posts "Why I think Google is targeting Windows Live"
[http://www.osnews.com/permalink.php?news_id=13533&comment_id=92462]
and
[http://www.osnews.com/permalink.php?news_id=13533&comment_id=92466]