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The Blank Page Is Dying. Microsoft and Google Just Killed It at the Same Time.

The AI productivity war is no longer theoretical. It showed up inside your Google Doc on March 10th.

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Novy Baf
Mar 16, 2026
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March 9th and 10th, 2026, were not normal days in enterprise software.

In 24 hours, Microsoft embedded a competitor’s AI technology into its Office suite, and Google responded by pushing Gemini deeper into tools used by 3 billion people. What happened between those two announcements is not a product update cycle.

It is the opening of a full-…

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