Between the Spaces

For years Microsoft has developed and delivered quality products for a not so quality price. Due to the pricing, many have resorted to software piracy in order to obtain this software. This obviously is a lot of money out of Microsoft’s pocket. Other companies have since released their own office suites including word-processing and spreadsheet software for either a lot less money than Microsoft’s Office or in some cases, completely free!

Today, Google has already begun taking advantage of its relationship with Sun Microsystems by announcing its plans to compete with Microsoft in the office productivity software arena. They plan to not only offer free online applications that provide both word-processing as well as spreadsheet access, but also access to Sun’s OpenOffice from the Google Toolbar. More to come…

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