The Register: No Office Suite From Us–Google

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 9, 2005

“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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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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