Microsoft is paying attention to Web-based Office suites but does not intend to release one itself in the near future, Microsoft's chief software architect Ray Ozzie told ZDNet's Dan Farber.
Farber button-holed Ozzie prior to an event at the Computer History Museum on Thursday, where he asked for his reaction to the growth of Web-based productivity applications from the likes of Google or Zoho.
"People have been trying to create applications with Web technology since the Web began," Ozzie said. "Just because you can do it, doesn't mean you should. We are looking at Google Docs & Spreadsheets, and paying attention to Office 2.0 and Zoho. We are also putting those in front of customers and seeing what makes sense."
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