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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Member since:I think the other argument against a thin-client office, the way it works now, not including any revolution that Google may have in mind, is that an AJAX implementation gives you no clear advantage over a local desktop version running. Other than it makes documents more accessible, which you can mimic with some sort of online storage using a regular desktop editing software.
Not if you don't have that software (or something compatable) already locally installed -- and the right version.
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I think the other argument against a thin-client office, the way it works now, not including any revolution that Google may have in mind, is that an AJAX implementation gives you no clear advantage over a local desktop version running. Other than it makes documents more accessible, which you can mimic with some sort of online storage using a regular desktop editing software.