Ubuntu edging towards Google Chrome OS

It is with interest that I noted that Ubuntu's netbook 'remix' addition has removed openoffice and the default word processing is going to be Google Docs according to digitozor

According to the latest Ubuntu Netbook Remix Blueprint, the Ubuntu community are planning to drop OpenOffice from the default installation of Ubuntu Netbook Edition for the upcoming Lucid Lynx release, atleast for now. Now documents will be opened by default in Google Docs.

From all accounts in  Google Chrome OS, a large component is online based. It would seem that the Ubuntu team with this development is going in the same direction....

Some Geek thoughts, office online

Interestingly Microsoft has recently announced that office 2010 will have an online component. For those with a microsoft password account it will be for free. What it offers which google docs doesn't is integration with the offline Microsoft Office.


One of my annoyances with Google docs is how you cannot start a document while offline. There are times when you may not be online.


There is a sync between google docs and openoffice, called 0002dg, its never really worked for me on a Mac, I suspect because at the time my Mac osx use an older version of Java.


Anyway I think that that with Microsoft announcement there is certainly a bit of competion in the air. For Goolge I think the easy way is to get the sync integration going  really well with the whole open office suite.