Not likely. As nice as google spreadsheets and documents are, they don't really hold a candle to Word or Excel.
Sorry, but these require, wait for it... An internet connection! That's right, corporate road warriors. You'd have to either shell out ridiculous sums of money for cellular data connections or wait for hotspots with potentially dubious security! Not only that, picture this - you're giving a presentation and the network hiccups. While you're trying to advance the slide...nothing happens. Or worse, a "Page Cannot Be Displayed" error. Then, once the connection comes back, you have to reaccess the document. Not very professional looking. Sure, you could have it saved offline, but then you'd need PowerPoint or OpenOffice anyway, so why bother?
This is just Google capitalizing on its name, as far as I can see. Who really needs a free trendy, possibly undependable and hackable office system when you have a free disk-based one that even comes in a portable executable for when the computer you need to present on doesn't have Java? Plus, didn't the Linspire gang already try and fail with this?
What an idiotic post. All our presentations (at my work place) are stored on centralized shared network drives to begin with, so if our network goes down, it doesn't matter whether the presentation is on Google's website or in Powerpoint. Yes, we could save it to a local machine, but businesses RELY on network connections, so this is hardly a showstopper. Most of my work relies on an internet/network connection. Plus, Google isn't targeting large corporate environments with this office suite, it is targeting small businesses and mom-n-pop operations that don't want to (or don't have the ability to) pay thousands of dollars in ridiculous licensing fees that Microsoft demands for its products. This is a shrewd move for Google that will pay off big if they can pull it off. Google Office is already the number one online office suite, but of course, the market is minuscule compared to the traditional software market. I suspect that will change soon, however.
I wouldn't. Google has more clout and better relationships (as well as a better image) with customers than Sun does. OpenOffice is trying to compete directly with MS Office, Google is not.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130868-pg,1/article.html That, the data protection problem and that there is no 100% coverage with wireless. No deal.
Well you can never be protected from stupid employees. Just cuz they made a public calender doesn't mean its a "security leak".
I have never seen a "professional" looking use of PowerPoint... Now if only I could add sounds and make every letter on the page rush in like a typewriter.
Sounds in powerpoint presentations, and all those weird animations for text and pictures, are the most unprofessional things anyone can do to a presentation. Powerpoint can be very professional, but only if you really know how to use it.
it'll replace office for certain companies, especially since office is overpowered for many users and microsofts continual anti-piracy systems is making it difficult for the average user to pirate.
Meh, I'd sooner use OpenOffice. It's only a matter of time before Google makes this subscription or irritatingly ad-filled.
Indeed. Given how many employees every single day open email attachments from 'people' they don't know... guess how many would care if their confidential docs are set to public
hehe..... "Slide one shows the ratio of buyers to non-buyers" 30 seconds later after the commerical ends.... "Slide two shows our plan to convert more non-buyers into buyers." I us Excel, Word, Powerpoint, even Publisher. I've never been able to use OpenOffice without problems. I guess I've been so used to MS that anything else is not worth it. Certainly I would not use Google's stuff when I have MS already.
I'm using it because when I formatted for Vista I left my MS Office Prof. 2003 disks at my house, and I haven't been there in quite a while. Anyway, OpenOffice is a neat concept, and for something that is free, it is pretty nice... but really the difference for me personally is worth paying for MS office (especially at student prices). Microsoft Office 2007 is amazingly badass though. Just waiting for my university to get a student priced version of that...
OpenOffice is very nice. I'd say it is on par with Office 2000 or so. Google, not so much. IMO it is clunky, and lacks features. It is kind of neat for no-budget collaborative planning and virtual team work, but it just isn't robust enough to be practical--for now.
We'll see how well it works / how nice it is. Frankly the online aspect isn't that amazing considering you can use IE to display powerpoints at remote locations that don't have the software. I've used google docs and spreadsheets, and sure they are OK. However, even on a fast connection and a nice pc they feel sluggish. Google docs seems to have weird formatting quirks as well. I realize they aren't fully matured, but frankly they don't match up with OpenOffice.org, and they definitely don't match up with MS Office. It's obvious which suite is the best, far and away. However, there is a considerable price gap between 100-300 dollars and FREE. As I said earlier, I'm still eager to get a copy of MS Office 2007. Hopefully next semester my university will have student priced copies available.
