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Re: The Reason Web-based Office Suite May Have Upper Hand on Desktop office

  • Subject: Re: The Reason Web-based Office Suite May Have Upper Hand on Desktop office
  • From: "Dean G." <dguttadauro@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: 26 Feb 2007 10:46:39 -0800
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On Feb 24, 11:11 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Google Docs & Spreadsheets vs Microsoft Office
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | This philosophy transferred to Google Docs & Spreadsheets, so that's
> | why it's unfair to compare it to Microsoft Office. Even if they'll add
> | more features (charts in Google Spreadsheets, pagination in Google
> | Docs), the products won't try to be an imitation of a desktop
> | product, but something that can be done on the web and takes
> | advantage of the huge power of the web: collaboration, instant
> | feedback, mashups, live data from the web, contextual search.

Oh, come on Roy, the real reason the web versions have an advantage is
that most users are too lazy to properly back up the data, and the
server farm workers usually do a much better job. Sad, but true. Add
to that the ease of access and not having to worry about carrying
around easy to lose USB drives or CD/DVD's, and the web versions have
a real advantage. Another advantage is that people with low end
machines can leverage the servers' power and may not need to upgrade
their PC's for every software upgrade.

1. Backups
2. Easy access without carrying it around
3. Lower hardware requirements

Downside : If the company goes out of busisness, you may too !

Dean G.



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