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Google v. Microsoft

Email|Link Posted by mwelch May 31, 2007 01:50 PM

Today Google officially challenged Microsoft's dominance of your desktop by launching a thing called Google Gears. What is Google Gears? It makes it so you can use Google's word processor and spreadsheet both online and offline. So Google has nicely sidestepped the browser and using a bit of Javascript gained access to the Microsoft stronghold. Since it will now allow me to work on documents even when I'm offline, I'm going to try it.

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