Writely, Google's Web-based competitor to Microsoft Word, began accepting new accounts Thursday. The service is free. New registrations were closed after Google acquired Writely last March.

Writely joins Google Spreadsheets and Google Calendar in a mini suite of free office applications. It's not as sophisticated as Microsoft Word, of course, and, as this CNet review points out it doesn't integrate with Google Spreadsheets.

But Writely is easy to use and my test pages printed out nicely.