More Google Docs available offline: Spreadsheets, presentations

Google has broadened the number of online applications that people can use offline, adding spreadsheets and presentations to the mix.

However, unlike with word-processing documents, spreadsheets and presentations can only be viewed, not edited, according to a post by marketing manager Andrew Chang on the Google Docs blog Friday. That's still useful, though. Chang gives the example of giving a slide presentation without having to worry about network access.

The offline access uses the Google Gears technology the search engine giant introduced in 2007 as an open-source project.

Google is trying to take on Microsoft with its online software, but Gartner believes Microsoft poses a greater competitive threat to Google with online ads than Google does to Microsoft with online office suites.

[OlsonBW]

So what if Google used OpenOffice or bought WordPerfect Office from Corel?

"Google is trying to take on Microsoft with its online software, <br />but Gartner believes Microsoft poses a greater competitive <br />threat to Google with online ads than Google does to Microsoft <br />with online office suites."<br /><br />So what if Google used OpenOffice or bought WordPerfect <br />Office from Corel?<br /><br />Corel has obviously lost focus on what made WordPerfect great <br />and they don't appear to know where to go with it. Maybe <br />Google could buy WordPerfect Office from Corel and split it into <br />two versions. One that runs from the internet and one that <br />stays on your computer.<br /><br />I realize it would take time to make a good web based <br />WordPerfect but I believe Corel could do it and just keep adding <br />features to it until WP Office Desktop and WP Office Web <br />versions looked and worked identically. <br /><br />Of course I wouldn't want them to mess up WordPerfect. It <br />would be great to get some of the main people that used to <br />own WordPerfect to be in charge of the application again. They <br />"got it" until they messed up and didn't make a Windows <br />version soon enough. <br /><br />Then there is the whole thing about Microsoft not telling 3rd <br />parties about all the APIs it used in Word and Excel to purposely <br />made 3rd party apps slower... I still think they should be fined <br />BIG money for that.

[OlsonBW]

In a Perfect world, Apple would buy WordPerfect Office...

In a Perfect world, Apple would buy WordPerfect Office and <br />continue to make it a Windows app but beef up the Mac OS X <br />version so there are things that work better on Macs than <br />Windows computer with WP, etc.<br /><br />Of course they would need to keep the file format compatible <br />between OSs.<br /><br />They could always license a "lite" version of WordPerfect to <br />Google so that they both share the same file format. Better yet, <br />use the OpenOffice file format as the default.

[MMC Racing]

These products are state of the art.......

If it was 1997.. What a joke.

[Jamie_Foster]

These Products are Crap

Zoho and thinkfree have loads more to offer. If anyone other than Google offered these Products no-one would care.