Google Punches Microsoft AGAIN!
Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced at the Web 2.0 Expo today that a presentation creation and sharing service will arrive soon to augment the current Google online offerings of gmail, calendar, word processing and spreadsheets.
Still, in announcing the product Eric Schmidt refused to concede that the Google suite poses any threat to Redmond. “We don’t think it’s a competitor to Microsoft Office,” Schmidt said. “It’s casual and sharing and a better fit to how people use the Web. My guess is many companies in the audience are building products like this or other variants of this using the emerging architecture.”
You first use them as add-on tools for manipulating and sharing Microsoft files online, and then, eventually, you find that you don't need the underlying Microsoft applications anymore...
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