Wednesday, October 29, 2008

The beginning of the end for Google Docs?

This is based on just a few minutes of playing, but the problem I have with Google Docs is that it is only a rough implementation of Office-type products. I just uploaded a Word file and it skipped all the embedded .emf graphics, screwed up the equations, and converted tables to some format that it itself no longer recognized as a table. Since formatting is important, isn't it easier to work in Word and share the document? 

Actually, now you may not have to do even that. Microsoft is upping the ante. See the full article.

1 comment:

David said...

I guess we are watching two companies develop better mouse traps. I think Google's idea worked well for a couple of years, but people had frustrations and now Microsoft is figuring out ways to incorporate ideas from Google into the next version of Office.

No matter what, I think being able to work with other people, at the same time, and with the same document will make collaboration on projects better.