Pixel Picture Clearer? Google Ports Office-Substitute To Chrome OS, Browser

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Google confirmed on Tuesday that it has ported part of QuickOffice (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9237167/Google_ports_Office_substitute_app_to_Chrome_OS_Ch rome_browser) to a technology baked into Chrome OS and the company's Chrome browser (http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/22/google-ports-quickoffice-to-native-client-for-chrome-will-launch-with-full-editing-features-in-about-3-months/). The popular iOS and Android app substitute for Microsoft Office that Google acquired last year will run using 'Native Client,' a technology that lets developers turn applications written in C and C++ — originally intended to run in, say, Windows. With that it will execute entirely within a browser, specifically Google's own Chrome. Google claims that Native Client code runs almost as fast inside the browser as the original did outside. QuickOffice viewers come bundles with the $1,300 Chrome OS-based Chromebook Pixel notebook (http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/02/21/200217/the-chromebook-pixel-is-real-and-expensive), and Google will add editing functionality in the next two to three months. Does this all make the Pixel make more sense?"

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/02/27/038254/pixel-picture-clearer-google-ports-office-substitute-to-chrome-os-browser