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Posted 2006-03-09 by Tony Walsh
 
 
     
 
According to the official Google weblog, the makers of browser-based word processor Writely have been added to Google's online arsenal. And so the Google-ization of what used to be desktop applications continues, with the company encroaching ever-further into territory dominated by Microsoft. I'm all for ridding myself of the Microsoft monopoly, but not if that means running into the arms of a Google monopoly. At least Microsoft doesn't have its paws on my personal documents.
 
     
 
   
 
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Comment posted by Burke Prefect
March 10, 2006 @ 10:52 am
     
 
Well. They're not as evil as Microsoft yet. And so far they haven't been overtly evil. At this point I'd let them have the keys to the world.
 
     
 
     
   
 
 
     
 
     
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