Comments on: Who actually uses online office suites?

By: kalivd

kalivd — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:35:10 +0000

Google seems to be playing catch up for a change. In the cloud computing firms like Zoho,Thinkfree, and eDeskOnline allow us to do all what Google has announced. The start ups are more aggresive, and Google may well lose the race.

By: Azhar

Azhar — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:59:03 +0000

I use Google Docs for collaboration. I’m sure many many people use it, we’re just not important enough to have much use for it as of now.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:58:42 +0000

That’s interesting - I thought you would be all about the web apps! I think online office programs are in their infancy though. They’re cool, but they’re still nowhere near as robust as complete as a desktop suite like Open Office or MS Office. Google Docs is good for online storage though!

By: Joe Lencioni

Joe Lencioni — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:25:34 +0000

I use Gmail for all of my personal email (for work I am still using Thunderbird) and it’s great. I also find the collaboration features of Google Docs is especially helpful for a number of things at home and at work, so I use that quite a bit, but I stick to Office for larger projects where I need more control over the document than what Google will offer me. I don’t know if this counts as part of the office suite, but I use Google Reader exclusively for RSS (except for the odd “live bookmark” in Firefox). Oh, and I’m on Windows Vista.