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Re:Alphabet Earnings Report Q3 2022 [pdf] by CydeWeys on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @06:34PM (#33337056)
The Office suite is used by every Googler every day (and that's every Googler, not just eng). It's what the company runs on.

There's no way in hell it's getting shut down when it's that critical to business operations.

Re:Alphabet Earnings Report Q3 2022 [pdf] by patmorgan23 on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @08:28PM (#33338131)
They could shut down the public facing product and make it internal only.
Re:Alphabet Earnings Report Q3 2022 [pdf] by CydeWeys on Thursday October 27, 2022 @01:58PM (#33361417)
But why would they? The Google Docs suite is a billion+ user product, which is monetized through Google Workspace and Google for Education (with many millions of paid user subscriptions).

This is just not remotely plausible of a shutdown target. It also dates back to 2006. I'm struggling to think of even five Google products I would name as being less likely to be shut down.

Re:Alphabet Earnings Report Q3 2022 [pdf] by bushbaba on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @10:02PM (#33338845)
...they killed some productivity apps. Don't say never. Hangouts, dead. Keep App, dead. Enterprise Search, dead. etc
Re:Alphabet Earnings Report Q3 2022 [pdf] by chrisconroy on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @12:09AM (#33339711)
Keep isn't dead. I use it everyday on my personal and business account. I love keep. I will be sad when the inevitably kill it though.
Re:Alphabet Earnings Report Q3 2022 [pdf] by hn_go_brrrrr on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @12:13AM (#33339727)
Keep is dead?
Re:Alphabet Earnings Report Q3 2022 [pdf] by CydeWeys on Thursday October 27, 2022 @01:54PM (#33361355)
Hangouts functionality basically still exists, just under a different name. It's still integrated in Gmail, with the same contact list, and all the previous conversations from Hangouts were still there. It's so similar that I bet many people don't even realize anything changed.

This is unlike, say, Reader, which was canceled with no replacement to this day.