Google Releasing an Office Suite

prostoalex writes "Google Apps for Your Domain is Google's entrance into the office productivity world, but contrary to popular expectations, the company is not shipping word processor or spreadsheet for corporate use just yet. Google, Inc. bundled e-mail client (Gmail), shared calendaring environment (Google Calendar), instant messaging client (GTalk) and HTML page generator (Google Page Creator) to be used across specific domains. The service will be ad-supported, reports the Associated Press." From that article: "The free edition of Apps for Your Domain is, like Google's main site, supported with ads. By the end of the year, the company also plans to launch a paid version that will offer more storage, some degree of support, and likely, no ads. A price for this edition hasn't been set. Providing e-mail and other applications for businesses moves Google closer into what has traditionally been turf occupied by Microsoft Corp. Earlier this year, Google released a program that builds simple Excel-type spreadsheets but lets users access them on the Web."

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Re:demand?

[cubicledrone]

How much demand will there really be from corporate users?

None, it's a complete waste of time and money.

Oh, wait, you expected someone to be able to predict the future with perfect accuracy, right? Something like what the egg-salad-stuffing asswedges in the conference rooms of our great free enterprises want on a daily basis so they have something to wave in the air and screech "it wasn't MY fault" when they fuck up?

I would assume that most would be nervous

Sphincters tighten at every overrated corporate desk when the fucks who ram thick wads of cash into their pockets by the hour are called upon to actually make a decision or do something remotely related to management.

So they instruct everyone to say they are in a meeting and hide under their hairpieces like the sniveling little weasel fucks they are, all the while trying to get everyone to think they are true starch-pressed captains of industry because they drive a car with leather seats.

What they should do in exchange for everyone else's paycheck is MAKE A FUCKING DECISION AND STAND BY IT.

But they won't. They'll just reverse-clusterfuck everything they touch and fire people to make up for the money they waste.