Google announced today that it has made some major improvements to its web office applications, called Google Docs. This seems aimed right across Microsoft's bow. Google has been making announcements about different municipalities and companies that have "Gone Google" effectively switching productivity suites, from Microsoft's Office to Google's Docs.
This should scare Microsoft out of its boots right? Well up until now Google's productivity suite wasn't very robust and didn't threaten Microsoft's large(read extremely profitable) corporate customer base. But Google hasn't been resting on its laurels, it has been moving to make a full feature productivity suite hosted in the cloud. Take a look at the video below to see how the features improve the Google suite.
With these improvements, Google is moving in the right direction to make Microsoft's business model obsolete. Only one problem, for all the great new features I'm not sure many companies will be comfortable with the advertising and offsite hosting required by Google. There comes a line between cost cutting and giving up control. I'm sure some balance will be struck, with companies handling highly sensitive data not converting to cloud computing. That said, I believe many companies, especially start ups, will begin to flock to Google's offerings.
Google's blog showing off the new Docs.
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