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Google To Add Presentations

Posted by kdawson on from the looking-office-like dept.

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."

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  1. So... by Impeesa · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They wanted to offer a new product, and bought a company to do so? Isn't that sort of a Microsoft thing?

    1. Re:So... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It is a business thing.

    2. Re:So... by Bongo+Bill · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The reason Microsoft is so rich is because that strategy works. It should be no surprise that Google behaves similarly.

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      ...but is it art?
  2. I don't get it by geek · · Score: 5, Insightful

    First Apple says they don't want their office app to compete with MSOffice, now Google says they don't want to compete with MSOffice. When will someone man up and compete? OpenOffice is nice but it has a HUGE number of flaws still. We NEED competition here.