Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 8th Oct 2005 18:57 UTC
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has quashed speculation that the giant ad broker is to introduce a web-based Office suite. "We don't have any plans," he told Web 2.0 conference organizer John Battelle. However Brin left the door open a little. Documents would be easier to work with in the future, he promised, but he didn't think a fat client was the way to go.
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I don't see the point of a centralized thin client driven office. I work with documents all the time from many different locations, the way I deal with it is simple, we have a cvs repository back in the office, on desktops, laptops etc we have ms office or if you like OO (it doesn't matter). I use tortoisecvs to maintain updates, it's easy and is doable with current technology. I much prefer a fat client on my laptop where I don't necessarily need to be hooked up to the internet. email is different, I can do email on an internet station at an airport if necessary but to write documents etc I much prefer my own machine.
Finally, I would not like have my documents on a server we havbe no control over by a company which opening reads other people's work.