What Google Spreadsheets Means
Posted on June 7, 2006
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The perspective that gets lost in these debates is that Microsoft itself appears to be well along the way to delivering componentized Office (Live) that satisfies the needs of casual and advanced users alike. Whether this avails itself in the timeframe that Google and others will deliver more robust online services in a legitimate question, and given Microsoft’s challenges with complex products (e.g., Vista) I would say this is a critical question. However, at the same time you would have to ask the question of Google and the others when they will have the richness of MSOffice and an offline mode.
IT|Redux » What Google Spreadsheets Means: Here is why: on one hand, customers buying Microsoft Excel on its own usually need the advanced features that are offered by the product. On the other hand, most Excel casual users usually got their copy Excel as part of the larger Microsoft Office package.
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