Sergey Brin is telling employees to stop making old products and start improving new ones. "For example, said Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, Google plans to combine its spreadsheet, calendar and word-processing programs into one suite of Web-based applications."

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-google6oct06,0,945092.story?track=mostviewed-homepage

Sankar Anand said:

>> Sergey Brin is telling employees to stop making old products and start improving new ones.

as in, the other way round =)

>The initiative's primary goal is to make Google products easier to use, especially by packaging disparate products. For example, said Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, Google plans to combine its spreadsheet, calendar and word-processing programs into one suite of Web-based applications.

Seem like we can expect a package from google.....

>The company does not plan to tell engineers to halt all new products, Google said, nor does it plan to kill little-used services.

google still to launch some new services...

>Schmidt said, Google canceled several services in development — which he would not describe — and instructed their creators to instead make them features in other products.

Note the point.......

>Schmidt said, Google canceled several services in development — which he would not describe — and instructed their creators to instead make them features in other products.

So, there was an google engineer working on Google ToDo

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