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Google Docs to support Powerpoint
KindredHyperion writes "Garett Rogers at ZDNet has an article on the prospect of a Powerpoint-esque addition to Google Docs and Spreadsheets. From the article: "If you dig around the language files in Google Docs, you will find what appears to be traces of a new service preparing for launch soon. Meet Google Presently — an online presentation creator that will likely read and write the most common formats like Microsoft PowerPoint and Open Office Impress.""
Figures, Google finally comes up with an alternative to opening PPTs in IE (*gag*) just after I graduate from college. No one uses PPTs over the internet in real life! ;)
Blerg.
I don't mean to troll but they could try to spend some effort in better support word and excel. The majority of documents that I share work flawlessly in OpenOffice on Linux, but the majority doesn't work at all on Google. It would be a fantastic platform for migration from Office on shared environments, if it worked...
I know, probably some problems are AJAX structural limitations, but, even so, Google could, and should, do better.
And here I was thinking that the lack of support for powerpoints was a feature of google documents. If I have to sit through one more badly-animated snooze fest of some obscure corporate policy, I'm just going to bring my DS into work. And, since the last one I had to sit through was "Appropriate use of company resources during work hours"..... well take a guess as to how effective they were.
Again many would point out that once Google irons out the kinks using these millions of users as beta testers using spotty and intermittent internet connections to do document creation, they can sell out a Office-in-a-box appliance to corporations. Completely managed by IT, with better intranet speeds these machines can chew big chunks of market out of MS.
Meanwhile, unmindful of all the implications of security, invasion of privacy and other such trivial concerns, millions of users will use whatever works for them and leave the future to evolve at its own speed and pace.
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Not a bad guess. One of the latest areas where Embedded Opera is actually getting used is on the Nintendo Wii and DS. It's mostly been used for accessing Flash games like those at Wiicade, but some Javascript applications that take advantage of the Wiimote have already started showing up.
It's an odd thought, but some people seem to like being able to access the Internet on their TV while sitting on the couch. It seems to be a convenience thing.
That being said, if Google supported Opera, they could advertise the Wii as a portable viewer for their Powerpoint-ish presentations. No need for a laptop TV card, just hook up the Wii and go. Hmm. My boss with a Wii. Scary thought.
Having an online project management tool would be way more useful than being able to do presentations or editing spreadsheets online.
.mpp files and see how much they've been allocated and their deadlines, be it devs, QA, tech writers...
If you work for any company, chances are Word, Excel, Powerpoint would be loaded onto your machine as standard installation. But does everyone get Project as well? unlikely unless you're management.
With Google Project, at least anyone interested can look at those
The closest I've found is Dia, but frankly it's not ready for non-techie users yet. It suffers from GIMP syndrome, where each palette of widgets is its own window in the taskbar, commands have non-standard names for no good reason, etc. We're on a tight IT budget so I tried to win over the couple of users who were asking for Visio, but Dia wasn't up to it and we had to bite the bullet and buy some Visio licenses. If someone turned a couple of UI and process engineers loose on Dia for a while it'd probably be a great niche product.
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They say the same thing with Google Calendar, even though you can ignore it and it runs fine in Opera.
You've clearly never coded^H^H^H^H^Hattempted to code hardcore DOM-level Javascript in Opera. Opera got a number of things right. Their Javascript engine was not one of them.
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