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Google Moving Into Office Space

by Jason on August 30th, 2006

TechCrunch highlights that Google has launched a collection of their apps to be used as a virtual office space for domains.

• Gmail
• Google Talk
• Google Calendar
• Google Page Creator
• Writely (Coming Soon?)
• Google Spreadsheet (Coming Soon?)

Interesting concept and a very logical one at that. I only use two of the above apps (Gmail & Google Talk) on any type of regular basis. Even then Google Talk is only because of it’s integration within the Gmail app.

This is a bold move by Google. They are striking hard at a nearly $12 billion/year Microsoft revenue stream. And they are clearly trying to get this out the door fast, in anticipation of Microsoft Office 2007, which will include collaboration features for businesses (as does Office Live, announced last year).

Although maybe it could be considered a bold move, I really don’t see this being any real competition with the Office 2007 application, even with it’s online integration. I think it’s still just a distraction from Google for Microsoft away from search.

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