Google Word Processor

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Today another peice of news intresting about Google is that "Google acquires Upstartle" (See News).

What does this mean ? Who's Upstartle??

Well they are the company behind "Writely - The Web Word Processor" (see Link) , which offers document processing capabilities on the web.That is its almost like "MS Word" on net .The difference is that you dont have to install word or Office for that matter to create your documents.
Writely also helps to share documents via email or save them to desktop or even store it in their server.While most companies wont prefer the latter ..the saving to desktop part will intrest most users due to security issues.

So does this mean End of Word?

I dont think so , last heard Microsoft is also planning a similar "Office Live" which avails word processing capabilities on the Net.

Either way its sure that a new age in softwares are shaping up ,centred on the web

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