Google Docs Takes Over For Writely

By combining the Writely online word processor and the Spreadsheets service into a single sign-on product, Google has moved ever closer to fulfilling the expectation they will someday place an online competitor to Microsoft Office online.


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It seems that today's buzz is about Google docs.

Check all the top stories at digg, delicious, etc.

My question is, what is so important about this service?

Maybe the thing is that you don't need word because excel or you can use an on online office.

I understand that, but what is the reason not to use it? I mean that the only thing you need to use such apps is to have a pc.... :P

BTW I don't use Office too. Open office is my fella for this kind of works :)

There are a lot of people don't have office or openoffice. This way you get access to a this applications without to pay for them. Sure this people can install also openoffice but this is online and you don't need to install somthing.

I use google spreadsheets for customer reports and will use the word processor for projects documentations or similar. The online features are very interesting while using this basic applications...

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A few days before I noticed this news in a thread at the webdigity forum, the fromerly online spreadsheet tool gets a brother word processor.
Some people would ask why all this word prossessors?
Both programs Google Docs and Spreadshots doesn’t h...

My biggest hesitation in using these 'free' services is what's the catch?

Maybe it's because I used to be responsible for data security on government systems, but I wouldn't want to be putting any business information on these sites or any other Internet-based service.

None of the big players have been particularly responsible when it comes to people's information and I can't imagine somewhere in the teeny tiny print isn't a disclaimer of non-responsibility, if not the right to 'review for inappropriate use'.

hehe, why is this free? because the reader of an excel spread sheet needs to register first ;)
this way they get more members then microsoft ever!

What do you do about you data in you mailbox? is you mail hosting provider responsable?
I think we need to follow the new trend, storing sensible data in our mail and sending the creadit card details via the internet ;D

Well, since you put it that way; there is no such thing as 100% data security.

Of course there isn't ;)

BTW in this case it seems that Google is fulfilling the Microsoft dreams...

I remember before many years (about 8-10), Bill Gates said in an interview that in the future the Office suite will be an internet service, and the user will be paying as using it. Back then this heared too strange and none could possibly imagine how this could be done, but now Google has allready did it :)