[IP] More on GoogleOffice?
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From: Ken Deifik <kenneth.d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: October 4, 2005 3:22:14 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: More on GoogleOffice?
Tech Crunch, a website that tracks Web 2.0 issues wrote:
"This is clearly not a Google Ajax Office suite, which was widely
anticipated. And as far as we could tell, the Webcast links never
worked. Overall, a big disappointment. People wasted an incredible
amount of time yesterday on this non story, which basically boils
down to people being given the option of downloading Google’s toolbar
in addition to JRE or Open Office. snooooooooooooze."
The above can be found at http://techcrunch.com/
It's hard to imagine that Google, which was among the first to offer
a great app that demonstrates the power of AJAX (Google Maps) is not
thinking of doing its office suite in any for BUT AJAX. Even if the
first iterations are about downloading a huge suite, this could
hardly be the solution they're going to end up with.
http://www.aventureforth.com/2005/09/06/top-10-ajax-applications/
offers an excellent list of AJAX apps that are available, at least in
BETA, along with a few more not available yet. The venture capital
behind these projects has to be envisioning the day the projects are
sold off to Google, Yahoo or MS.
It took Firefox's success to force MS to update IE and to start
competing again. Office apps will now have a chance to resume their
evolution, or at least their intelligent re-design, too.
Actually, the MS in-house documentaries of Office 12 and Sparkle (a
very powerful vector graphics editor for Avalon) clearly show that MS
has not been sitting on its hands with Office and with the OS, the
way it did with IE. In the end, the latency issues that at least
used to be associated with online apps may well keep MS in the
driver's seat with Office apps, only they'll have a whole smorgasbord
of new features to acquire and offer in future products.
- Ken
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