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November 03, 2005
Google hits Microsoft in the wallet
Google invests in enhancing OpenOffice
I get Google’s support for Firefox: an IE-only or IE-Centric web allows one of Google’s search competitors to shoehorn their own services into place, grabbing mindshare that would otherwise be Google’s. What I don’t get is a move by Google to help develop Open Office. If this isn’t a gratuitous stab at Microsoft, I don’t know what it is...
Though I must say that OpenOffice 2.0 is shaping up to be a rather nice product, and if Google helps make 3.0 even better, we as consumers will benefit greatly. But I doubt that Google is so frustrated with MS Office that they would spend money beefing up a competitor. MS Office is a very well designed product...
Posted by Andrew at November 3, 2005 03:45 PM
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