There was a post on the ZDNet blog about Google spreadsheets possibly getting a chart function. This would be a big step for web applications and push it more towards becoming a replacement for a desktop application.
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The New York Times had an article about AJAX web applications on the web to use in place of desktop applications. The article says computer hardware has reached a point where its very inexpensive to pick up a pretty good system. The software however ends up costing even more than the hardware. Google has bought Writely a web based word processor and also released a preview of its spreadsheet software.
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Google has released a test version of their Google Spreadsheet software. You can sign up to be on the list to try out the new software. Like GMail it’s a web baased application using AJAX as its key method for transportation. This is another Web 2.0 example and another transition from desktop applications to web applications. Now I don’t think all desktop applications will be replaced by web applications anytime soon, there is definitely a strong push to develop the ones that are possible at this time.
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