Microsoft built a competitor to Google Docs in 1997. MS Office used its political clout to kill the project. https://www.gartner.com/doc/329292/microsofts-office-division-swallows-netdocs …pic.twitter.com/uvPRJbI3OD
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dont forget Office Web Components (ActiveX Controls) was a nice web spreadsheet. Let that one die but was nice
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I emailed Project Manager Dave Sterns who had moved on from MS and asked "why they kill this?" answer was basically "politics"
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And in doing so they avoided being evil corp.
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