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They're not killing chrome. I doubt they kill their office suite either, it has really good numbers among young people, and microsoft's entire business is built on the back of its enterprise productivity software. It's a trillion dollar market cap business.

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The Office suite is used by every Googler every day (and that's every Googler, not just eng). It's what the company runs on.

There's no way in hell it's getting shut down when it's that critical to business operations.

They could shut down the public facing product and make it internal only.

But why would they? The Google Docs suite is a billion+ user product, which is monetized through Google Workspace and Google for Education (with many millions of paid user subscriptions).

This is just not remotely plausible of a shutdown target. It also dates back to 2006. I'm struggling to think of even five Google products I would name as being less likely to be shut down.

...they killed some productivity apps. Don't say never. Hangouts, dead. Keep App, dead. Enterprise Search, dead. etc

Keep isn't dead. I use it everyday on my personal and business account. I love keep. I will be sad when the inevitably kill it though.

Keep is dead?

Hangouts functionality basically still exists, just under a different name. It's still integrated in Gmail, with the same contact list, and all the previous conversations from Hangouts were still there. It's so similar that I bet many people don't even realize anything changed.

This is unlike, say, Reader, which was canceled with no replacement to this day.

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