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How Google's giving Microsoft a new fit
Created: 10/13/2006
Video description: Microsoft makes billions of dollars each year from its Office franchise. But now Google has launched a spreadsheet and word processor on its Web site that anyone can use--for free. Is this the first move in a broader push by Google to expand into software applications? Join Charlie Cooper, Elinor Mills and Rafe Needleman in this week's edition\r\nof the CNET News.com Reporters' Roundtable.

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