Comments on: Google treads on PowerPoint turf

In his keynote address at Web 2.0 Expo, CEO Eric Schmidt shows off new Docs & Spreadsheets feature that lets users create presentations.
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[technewsjunkie]

Powerpoint competition? SIGN ME UP!

The presentation software market used to be very innovative and
competitive, until Microsoft bundled Powerpoint, or subsidized it in
Office give aways to hardware vendors.

Lookng at classrooms and business offices you'd think that
Microsoft invented the slideshow presentation market. THEY
DIDN'T, they arrested it!

[gggg sssss]

yeah baby

on line, collaborative, shareable, light weight, browser based ...Its sdjectives like these that are getting me hot already. Whereas MS goes off into the presentation foundation morass. Of course printing it out will look lik e crap, but...

Why didnty I buy some google stock? WHy Why?

[Sumatra-Bosch]

PowerPoint Competition? Cardboard and Crayons!

If there is one emetogenic application in Office, it's PowerPoint. It's not only vile but unstable and much less easy to use than squares of cardboard and crayons - and not nearly as nice looking.

Now, all Google needs to do is give users a piece of the action for letting Google run keyword ads on presentations and force Microsoft to pay people to use PPT just to keep up.

Next, Mr Schmidt needs to bounce all searches coming in using Internet Explorer and hand back links to download Mozilla.

Baller could throw chairs at every customer and every competitor for five years and still wouldn't be able to match Google's play in the desktop applications market.

[torrent478]

OOo anyone?

if google really wanted to kill MS office, they would just pour their resources into Open Office project, and get out there to really promote it. Either that or create something like it.

[JesseThe]

I agree with the OpenOffice comment

The comment on OpenOffice makes total sense. I use both Office 2003 and OpenOffice and I can attest that the latest version 2.2 is almost 100% compatible with all the Office packages.

Furthermore, once I installed Office 2007 (NOT my recommendation) I am using OpenOffice my frequently, since it has 99% of the same commands and buttons as Office 2003. Office 2007 is just too many clicks for me.

Jesse The Mind Ventura

[kieranmullen]

free office suite OpenOffice

OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, (you can open and save as microsoft word documents for word, excel and powerpoint) the product is free to download, use, and distribute.

If you are business or individual needing a supported product Sun Microsystems sells a similar product (it is what openoffice originated from) http://sun.com/staroffice/ $70 USD E
nterprise Edition for Organizations (5-10,000+ licenses) Starting at: $35 per RTU license

http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/faqs/general.jsp

KieranMullen (I didnt write most of the above)

[fitzgm3]

Only Half Agree

I agree that OO is a great replacement for MS Office today. But I think OO needs to pour it;s development effort into making the application available as a web service. We need to keep moving forward and personal operating systems and fat applications are not forward thinking.

We should access everything over the network (like we do TV and phone now). Want to give a presentation for to mypresentation.whatever and give your presentation. Want to share your pictures it is done automatically. Forget memory cards just snap away and the picture is sent to your on-line album. The upside is all your data can be backed up in a safe and secure manner when it is on the network. And you always have access to everything.

[kieranmullen]

Back to reality

Wireless is not everywhere... Internet is not everywhere, and where it does exist it doesnt cover 100%. People need offline services. Online is not the end all solution.

[pentium4forever]

Google will be king within next 5 years I predict

I think Google is going to rule the world one day!

[kael10]

Mr. Schmidt owes his success largely to a global network of mobster fiends is what I hear from rival mafia. They say it was him that was directly responsible for the colosal profits made from promoting child pornography with the Google search engine.
http://endmafia.com
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