I’ve been keeping this post in my drafts for quite sometime till rumors are confirmed. Writely has been aqcuired by Google. Earlier on a friend of mine and a co-blogger wrote about the death of MS Office on toot’s blog. While I disagree with that and frimly believe the death of MS Office takes a whole lot more than an AJAX application like writely. I find it quite interesting how Google is now going out of its way to compete with Microsoft. Was Live.com too much of a threat?

If you don’t have a writely account and want to get one just because it’s a Google product, you no longer can. I presume Writely will get a face lift and get converted from ASPX to PHP or something open source before Google allows registrations again.

To be clear, Writely is still in beta, and it’s far from perfect. Upholding our great user experience means everything to us, so we’re not accepting new registrations until we’ve moved Writely to Google’s software architecture. If you’re interested in giving us a try, we hope you’ll get on the waitlist so we can let you know when you’ll be able to try out Writely.

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