Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Be Afraid Microsoft… Be VERY Afraid


Filed under: coolservices, google, cool

Well it looks like Google is back up to it with the pre-pre-release of Google Spreadsheets . Given the fact that I haven't gotten into the preview yet I can't say from personal experience but this looks like a killer app (literally and figuratively).

Particularly intriguing about this offering is the heavy focus on collaboration, something that feels oddly missing from the recent Google Notebook. So far I really like what I see in the works and I hope Google brings this approach to all their applications.

Many have said but none have been able to prove that Google is writing a web-based office suite that would compete with Microsoft, the first move was their acquisition of Writely, and now this. Google has positioned itself with a partial office suite that would easily compete with Microsoft. Let's review:

  • Gmail + Calendar + Chat + Notebook = MS Outlook
  • Writely = MS Word
  • Google Spreadsheets = MS Excel
  • Google Pages = MS Frontpage
The only things that I see are a presentation package, a database package, and a flowchart package. I don't doubt those are in the works. Go Google! I do hope I get into the alpha soon…

2 comments:

  1. I'm on the preview. It has everything apart from Macros. However recently I've learnt that almost everything done in macros can be done in functions some how.

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