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An article was posted back in March after Google bought UpStartle in a French online magazine related to Mobile Office.

I ran the article through Google’s translator (sorry Babelfish my old friend) as my French only really extends to “Un bier, sil vous plais”. The translation (in it’s raw Google translated form for added funniness) was as follows:

“The publication on Internet is décidemment a priority for Google. After the repurchase of Blogger, the launching of Google Bases or of Google Page, group Internet officially announces on its blog the repurchase of UpStartle, editor of Writely, a text processing on line “Web 2.0â€Â?. The note was written besides by Jen Mazzon, creator of Writely and from now on member of “Google Writely TEAMâ€Â?. Presented like an alternative to the software like Microsoft Word or OpenOffice Writer, Writely requires only one navigator Web and a connection Internet to function while proposing the basic tools to organize its text or to publish it. With the manner of Wiki, the application is also conceived to be shared between several Net surfers, who can intervene on the same text simultaneously. Decided well “to organize the information of the worldâ€Â?, Google in any case seems more not to want to limit itself to research but intends well to be essential upstream, at the moment creation of the documents, by taking the control of a maximum of tools for publication on Internet. Remain to know if Microsoft, which largely dominates this universe thanks to the success of its continuation office, proposes one day “Windows Live Writerâ€Â?, to counter the ambitions of its turbulent competitor.”

So Microsoft dominates the Universe in Office Productivity. I’ll have to check with my colleagues in the Xahafos System to see if that’s actually true as I heard that Traubident Thought Writer was doing well there. Here, though, with trademark French clairvoyance they predict the possibility of “Windows Live Writer”.

Fascinating…