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Google: Firms can ‘get rid’ of Office in a year

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 16, 2009

“Girouard, one of the company’s four presidents including
founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, said in an interview with
ZDNet Asia that he expects Google’s online document application,
Google Docs, to reach a “point of capability” next year that will
serve the “vast majority’s needs”.

“He acknowledged that Docs is currently “much less mature” than
Google Mail or Calendar. “We know it. We wouldn’t ask people to get
rid of Microsoft Office and use Google Docs because it is not
mature yet,” he said.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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