This isn't news, considering Google co-founder Sergey Brin has already said it wasn't going to happen, but there has been so much silly speculation that it's worth repeating. Now eWeek reports that "Sources close to the joint efforts between Google Inc and Sun Microsystems Inc say rampant speculation about hosted desktop productivity offerings and common operating systems is way off base."
"A hosted desktop productivity offering has not been well-received when it has been tried in the past, and those have been beset with problems, including a lack of network bandwidth and speed," said one source. "There are also currently quite a number of existing user options, from Microsoft Office and Microsoft Works to Corel's WordPerfect Office, Sun's StarOffice and the free OpenOffice.org, so what benefit would a hosted offering bring?"
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