Google Inc. will promote Sun Microsystems Inc.'s word processing and office software products in an alliance announced on Tuesday that could mark a first step toward challenging Microsoft Corp's
dominance of the computer users' desktops. Computer maker Sun and Web search company Google gave few details, saying they would jointly promote OpenOffice, Sun's free office productivity software that
competes with Microsoft's Office suite of software, and Sun's Java software platform, which runs thousands of PC programs.
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