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Re:Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead by jariel on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @03:27PM (#23632706)
"_open a new market_ for advertising, and to gather data for the same."

No, I think they wanted to make money from it directly via Enterprise sales.

MS Office is the #1 source of profit for MS for a long while.

In the 2000's it seemed 'everything was going cloud', naturally Google thought they could leapfrog MS into that space.

But it didn't work out.

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Re:Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead by bsder on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @05:47PM (#23634251)
Well, obviously, if Google was going to have to take an actual phone call from somebody when things went pear-shaped, that was never going to work out.
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Re:Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead by dx034 on Friday June 26, 2020 @08:47AM (#23651369)
And that even though MSFT started creating Office Online much later and also had to basically create a whole new product. And yet they now have the by far superior product.
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