Comments on: Google guns for Microsoft

Google Spreadsheets targets Office, but analysts say Microsoft probably shouldn't worry...until the consumers begin to influence the enterprise.

[directorblue]

Look for the Google Office Appliance (GOA) someday soon...

Collaborative workbooks are far more critical to businesses than the analysts assert. I wouldn't be surprised to see higher uptake of Google Spreadsheets than anyone anticipated.

For those folks who don't want proprietary content transiting their firewall, look for a Google Office Appliance someday.

p.s., I predicted the Google Office Appliance in December of '05:

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2005/12/firefox-extensions-and-end-of-windows.html

[kathy_torez]

I predict Google will go out of business if they treat us like dirt

If Google keeps ignoring its 98% source of revenues, which is us small businesses
that buy pay-per-click Ads on Google, if they keep treating us like dirt, I predict that they will go out of business. Because we will seek and find alternative sources of PPC advertising to Google.
After all they can only treat their customers like dirt if they had a monopoly on search engine as for examples air lines have on air travel. I mean it is not like we can go to a competing airline that will give us business seats at half the price
of coach seats, or coach seats that are not tiny baby size.
But thanx God when it comes to search engine PPC Advertising we have, or are getting, some new choices. Some really different choices. For example we are switching most of our PPC advertising dollars to this new search engine called Anoox which is Not-for-Profit and totally Open.

[kathy_torez]

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[J. Blow]

Previous poster either works for anoox or got fired from Google

You completely lack credibility. stop filing your stupid posts.

[lingsun]

Microsoft isn't going to lose too many customers

Microsoft isn't going to lose too many customers. Most Office buyers are businesses who need real programs and not just a third-rate spreadsheet. People who would use Google's office software would never pay for it anyway. Other people ALREADY BOUGHT Office so why would they switch now?

[zxocuteboy]

What more?

Does this mean Google will be coming up with a office suite soon???

[ablocker]

Looks interesting for collaboration

Well, I've been trying Google's spreadsheet program, and it seems pretty good. It's not as full-featured as Excel, but the collaboration features are quite nice. I can see using it when I want to edit a sheet as a group; seems far better than email exchanges or clustering around a screen. I can see using Google's emerging suite alongside Office for collaboration and working on essential files from the road. Interesting times.

[damiandennison]

are we all crazy

come on! who in there right mind would switch to this 100% No business user will use this to do any real work. It is for home users and most home users have a friend of a friends copy of office anyway and as MS start craking down on that they will just switch to OpenOffice.org. Come one MS have nothing to worry about from this and anyone who thinks so is just crazy and trying to make more of this than it should be, a nice toy.

[kamwmail-cnet1]

They're not crazy. Just Stupid Kids With NO Brains.

They obviously don't use spreadsheets. They have no clue what-so-ever about OpenOffice. Actually, they just have no clue. Butt they post a lot of "expert" rehash of meaningless pass articles and screenshots.

To these wanna-be's, they're experts in spreading ****, so spreadsh!t is a topic they're well versed in.

[zxocuteboy]

What more?

Does this mean Google will be coming up with a office suite soon???

[dysonl]

The Choice is Obvious

Which one do you prefer: 1) a spreadsheet application that has evolved for more than 20 years, to which "web-awareness" is added (or will be soon); or 2) a very rudimentary spreadsheet web-service?

Besides, how many people is actually a spreadsheet newbie that NEEDS online sharing and collaborative capabilities?

[rcrusoe]

Which do I prefer? The free one, if it works.

Microsoft spokesperson Heather Gillissen told internetnews.com,
".. [Google Spreadsheets] .. [is] like watching a time machine
from 10 years ago."

If that means that Google Spreadsheet is comparible to Excel 97,
then, IMO, Google has the makings of a winner. We have
hundred of copies of MS Office in use (O97, 2000, XP, 2003) and
not one of our users has needed any feature not included in
Excel 97.

http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3611576

[rayted32-191126880979139043961]

Poll is Surprising!

Either there's a lot of Excel/MSFT haters out there or...there's a lot of Excel/MSFT haters out there!