Comments on: Google to launch Presentations, Arrington wrong about aim

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:04:31 +0000

I don’t see why it would make no sense. If someone has all the features they need in GOffice, why buy MSOffice? To that end, I think that the GOffice suite is indirectly competing with Microsoft. It may not be intentional, but as long as Google is taking away money from Microsoft due to a similar product, there is competition. (At least as far as Microsoft and I am concerned!)

I’m not saying it’s a bad thing, but I don’t think there is any reason to say ignore the ultimate effect of this announcement.

By: Huw

Huw — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:27:55 +0000

But where you’re wrong is that it has a fundamentally different purpose. It is a completely different niche.

It can’t be called competition if it would make no sense to transfer from using ms office full time to GOffice full time. People still have to by MS Office.

By: reuven

reuven — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:08:02 +0000

Sure, they are only competing unintentionally…
It just so happens that they are offering a similar product with the same purpose and only slightly different features.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:31:23 +0000

Dare I say it… in creating a more simple collaboration oriented office suite, I think Google may be unintentionally competing with Microsoft. Not directly of course, they are two separate products: however I think that people (and smaller businesses) value simplicity over powerful features.

The only roadblock for this might be some better printing support and a WYSIWYG view for printing (think Microsoft Word’s “Normal” view). Once that’s done, I think Google really has the total package for many smaller businesses.