Comments on: Microsoft calls Google’s assault on Word ‘naive’

By: John, Canton, MI

John, Canton, MI — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:32:43 +0000

Re: “Norton says consumers are shifting towards “cloud computing,” the idea of working within a web browser.”

Cloud computing is great, but it’s not really about working in browsers — that’s the first way we did it but not always the best way…. For a more advanced view of cloud computing, look at FedEx and how they use the cloud to let you ship packages from within Outlook.

http://www.fedex.com/quickship

By: Catharine - Bellevue, WA

Catharine - Bellevue, WA — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:35:21 +0000

i did see Google’s program until this week and actually thought it was an April Fool’s joke.

By: LA, Orem, UT

LA, Orem, UT — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:37:15 +0000

Bring back WordPerfect!!

By: RJ, Washington DC

RJ, Washington DC — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:43:40 +0000

Google will be pandering all of your private data in any case.

By: Leo columbus,GA

Leo columbus,GA — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:08:05 +0000

It funny to read the one sided comments… I use both i create the doc in word upload them to google and share’em out so that everyone can edit it and input there ideas and when there done just re-download it and go from there….10x easy that sending and email out and getting 30 dif version of the same doc…..everyone see’s all the changes made by other folks at once……there’s only one copy floating around

By: Adam Hazdra, Prague, Czech Republic

Adam Hazdra, Prague, Czech Republic — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:54:14 +0000

Free of charge web-based office software is a nice idea, but what about security? It’s similar to the gmail situation a couple of years ago.

By: Perry Oikus, Sparta, Greece

Perry Oikus, Sparta, Greece — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:12:56 +0000

Most people use Office because it’s convenient. But after more than a decade of upgrades, there’s increasingly less new functionality in each release that is compelling.

Google’s Doc effort is a bit basic currently, but hey, it pretty much does all I need it to.

By: Reality, Nova Scotia, Canada

Reality, Nova Scotia, Canada — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:30:00 +0000

It is interesting how Microsoft is painted in the light of being evil and incompetent. While, the 500M users comment is a bit over the top… it is factual and people didn’t adopt Office just because Microsoft said they should. In a market of increased competition from already free alternatives such as OpenOffice, Microsoft Office is still reigning supreme. If the product was not seen as valuable or if the company was not seen as trustworthy… why is it that so many people choose to use it?

Perhaps if you consider the facts instead of buying into Fan Boy religious debates, you would see that the very model Google is heading toward is the model Microsoft has been touting all along… Software plus Services. Google Gears is a prime example of Google realizing that this ever promised Utopia of thin computing hasn’t happened before when it was threatened by Sun and others and isn’t likely to happen now either.

The reality is, most corporations or governments will not be open to storing their content in the cloud anytime soon. Add to that the fact that AJAX is not nearly mature enough to offer the rich experience that a desktop application provides and the dream seems a little less real at this point.

And before anyone quotes the 80/20 rule… realize that 500M people start their day in Microsoft Office and everyone of them uses a different 20% of the features… Google Docs is immature at best as a replacement to that model.

By: Jonathan (Dublin, OH)

Jonathan (Dublin, OH) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:35:18 +0000

OpenOffice is still better than both of them – and also free.

By: Luke, Los Angeles, CA

Luke, Los Angeles, CA — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:57:31 +0000

This tech giant battle is interesting to say the least. Both companies are very innovative and have some cool stuff. Competition for the consumer is great, but in this case, each firm has its own special niche, which they are trying to expand and overlap; the consequences of which will be some great ideas on both sides. Free News Website

By: a to the ozz

a to the ozz — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:44:29 +0000

Google is offering a product, seamlessly integrated with the cloud, for FREE. It’s time consumers got some choice after being subjected to Microsoft’s evil monopoly of incompetence. Hopefully Google will eventually offer a better version of Docs that is not free (but not obscenely expensive like Office). Aren’t people tired of this guy yet? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MuZDlVWh8I

By: Steve, Lansing, MI

Steve, Lansing, MI — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:42:01 +0000

All hail google!

By: Dreamdeceiver, Silcone Valley

Dreamdeceiver, Silcone Valley — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:23:41 +0000

Well I’ve used GoogleDocs & the implementation surely looks childish & naive.