Google buys Web word-processing technology Showing it's interest in enabling people to handle office tasks over the Net, Google buys Upstartle, maker of Writely.

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Yeah Write was a new kind of word processor, released in the mid-'90s. It's still available, but hasn't been updated since the days of Windows 7, so we can't recommend it for business use.

But when I discovered word processing for the first time — in 1980, I think — it was like a fog had lifted from my brain and I'd suddenly developed a direct neural connection to a writing tool.

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Google buys Web word-processing technology Showing it's interest in enabling people to handle office tasks over the Net, Google buys Upstartle, maker of Writely.