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In the mid 1990\'s Oracle and Sun Microsystems developed and promoted\\nthe concept for a Network Computer (NC).\\xa0\\nUnfortunately, the revolutionary idea did not make sense offering a\\nfraction of the functionality provided by a regular Personal Computer (PC), at\\na similar purchase price and the networks of the day could not support it. Recent\\ndevelopments, including greater adoption of high-speed internet, a new\\nprogramming model for web-based user interfaces called AJAX and a killer application for it \\u2014 Gmail\\n\\u2014 are now bringing new life to this concept. The idea is pretty simple: use a\\ngeneric web browser and a set of online services to provide all the\\nfunctionality needed by a computer user, removing the need for any application\\nor data for that matter to be installed on the computer itself. Thus is born Office 2.0.