Google To Add Presentations

A number of readers (some from the audience at Web 2.0 Expo) wrote to let us know that Google is adding presentations to their Docs and Spreadsheets package. With the announcement the company revealed that they have purchased Tonic Systems to help with the new presentation software. It's expected to be ready by summer. Google's CEO Eric Schmidt was asked if Docs and Spreadsheets will compete with MS Office, and he said, "We don't think so. It doesn't have all the functionality, nor is it intended to have the functionality of products like Microsoft Office."

Comments

Competing with MSFT

[stratjakt]

I know what I mainly need from an "office suite" is just a good word processor, one that doesnt lag 10 keystrokes behind me typing a simple letter.

I don't want to buy or install a whole office suite, just the apps I need. Why does it all have to be bundled with junk I dont care about?

Re:Competing with MSFT

[Tickletaint]

I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. In addition, during this file transfer, Safari will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Pages.app is straining to keep up as I type this.

Re:Won't work

[homeobocks]

Way to summarize what Joel Spolsky wrote years ago.