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Now Google has <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/hosted-misc/browse_thread/thread/fd41275eacb60718/b48620a498b473ed?lnk=gst&q=docs+spreadsheets&rnum=3#b48620a498b473ed">added</a> its Docs & Spreadsheets service, which rose from its acquisition of <a href="http://www.writely.com">Writely</a>, allowing users on the same domain to write and collaboratively edit word processor and financial documents.<br /><br />Users can publish documents only to colleagues on the same domain. The facility could be used for internal communication and for intranet-like functions.<br /><br />The Apps package is marketed to small businesses, enterprises, schools and families. Sky Broadband subscribers in the UK already use the system to manage their sky.com email through a Gmail interface.<br /><br />Commentators have been excited in the last year by the prospect Google would offer an online rival to Microsoft's Office suite. The Mountain View company recently launched a slicker new Apps control panel and a <a href="http://www.google.com/a/enterprise/">premier</a> edition with no ads and increased mailbox space.<br /><br />But, while the Gmail and Docs offerings represent probably the best web applications in their fields, the Apps package involves a learning curve and is aimed squarely at the enterprise, rather than the consumer, space.
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<strong>Google has added Google Docs & Spreadsheets to its Google Apps On Your Domain offering, in another sign of the search giant's slow, mythological creep toward a Web 2.0-style Office rival.</strong>
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<a href="http://www.google.com/a">Google Apps</a> allows site administrators to issue users with white-label installations of Google's Gmail, Calendar, Talk, Start Page and Page Creator services, with apps accessible from the owners' domain name rather than on google.com.</p>
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