You mean they finally got around to re-branding that thing they bought. > -----Original Message----- > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 10:38 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Uh Oh - Google Releases Online SpreadSheet > > I wonder if Ozzie's getting scared ... > > Google Advances Software Challenge With Spreadsheet > By KEVIN J. DELANEY > June 6, 2006; Page B2 > > Google Inc. plans today to release a Web-based spreadsheet application > allowing users to collaborate online, in a further foray into > Microsoft Corp.'s traditional turf. > > The introduction of Google Spreadsheets follows Google's March > purchase of a company offering a Web-based word processor named > Writely. The two free Web-based Google services overlap with > Microsoft's core Excel spreadsheet and Word word-processing software. > Google's offerings highlight a nascent challenge to traditional > software applications by a variety of Web-based services. > > Consumers will access Google Spreadsheets through Web browsers, rather > than having to install software on their hard drives, in contrast with > Excel. > > Spreadsheet documents that users create will be saved on Google > computers, allowing consumers to give other users access to view and > edit the spreadsheets over the Web. Multiple users will be able to > simultaneously edit the same spreadsheet and type messages to each > other in a separate window. > > Google Spreadsheets requires a Web connection, though users could > export a file from Spreadsheets and work on it while offline using a > software application such as Excel. Users of Spreadsheets will be able > to import and export content formatted as Microsoft Excel documents or > files in the comma-separated-values, or CSV, format. > > Google, of Mountain View, Calif., said the offering is a simple, early > version that lacks some sophisticated features such as the ability to > create charts or drag and drop data within a spreadsheet. The company > will release the service to an unspecified number of users who add > their names to a waiting list. Each user will be able to store up to > 50 spreadsheets initially. > > Google played down any rivalry with Microsoft Excel. "I see them as > complementary," said Jonathan Rochelle, product manager for Google > Spreadsheets. "I know a lot of users will use both." > > Microsoft General Manager Alan Yates said the Google offering is one > of a field of similar products competitive with the Redmond, Wash., > company's Office and Works suites of productivity applications. > "There's nothing new here really," Mr. Yates said. > > --Robert A. Guth contributed to this article > > Write to Kevin J. Delaney at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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