Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Google to release online spreadsheet

Google is set to launch an Online Spreadsheet extending a range of internet-based alternatives, which will be made available on a limited test basis. It follows Google's March purchase of a company offering a Web-based word processor called Writely.

The two Google Web-based applications represent possible challenges to Microsoft Corp.'s core personal-computer software business. Microsoft's Word and Excel dominate the word processing and spreadsheet markets.

The internet search company said it believed its latest service would be “complementary” to Microsoft’s Excel spreadsheet, which is included in Office, rather than a rival.

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