Google has unveiled a beta of its Google Docs & Spreadsheets
Google merges Writely and spreadsheet tools
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12 Oct 2006, Clement James , V3
Google took step towards offering its own online Office-type product this week with the news that it has merged two of its online tools, the Writely word processor and the Google Spreadsheets service launched earlier this year.
The result is Google Docs & Spreadsheets, with the name Writely and the standalone versions of the products likely to be retired.
Google announced the offering as "one place where you can create, store, share and publish your documents and spreadsheets online".
"Keeping your documents and spreadsheets online is a treat because you can access them from anywhere via a web browser," the statement continued.
"You can also get feedback and contributions from others you invite without having to email copies of files because the current version is always online."
Google has revised the respective Writely and Google Spreadsheets interfaces so they are "more identical than fraternal", and unified the two with one log-in, one help centre and a list that shows all the user's documents and spreadsheets online.
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Good News
Google keeps getting better and better GO Google!!!
Posted by E.C. Van Der Eecken, 12 Oct 2006
Google takes on Microsoft for Docs?
What lame brain would reaplce Excel or Word for an online platform? I dont think Microsoft is too scared
Posted by peter, 12 Oct 2006
Online vs not online
It might not be Googles plan to replace word and excel, but I believe it will be easier for Google to port their online apps to local apps than for Microsoft to online-enable theirs to the same degree...
Posted by Eirik, 12 Oct 2006
Online Realm...
This might not just yet be ready for primetime (a la MS Office), but the online access-anywhere storage is a very promising software scheme.
I'm sure Google's abilities in this online access-anywhere realm are much further along than any such facilities in Vista or MS Windows Live...
Posted by George, 12 Oct 2006
Another piece of innovative products
Hey Peter! What lame brain will offer a character based operating system against a GUI based O.S like Apple? Believe it or not, that's how it is back in the 80's when Microsoft is still a small company and Apple has all the good stuffs.
Google's offering an online Word and Spreadsheet program is just another innovative step in the ever evolving technology. If there is one lesson that is constant in human history, is that if you fail to foresee the future, you lose.
Posted by Farut Barbakusi, 13 Oct 2006