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Can Google Kill PowerPoint?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fight-it-out-with-pretty-colors dept.

theodp writes "Far from a PowerPoint killer, Slate's Paul Boutin finds Google's online presentation tool Preso more like a PowerPoint commercial — a half-baked app that shows how powerful Microsoft's program really is. But if you have your druthers, Boutin suggests ditching both and opting for Apple's Keynote, which helped snag an Oscar for Al Gore and inspired this Dear-PPT-Letter. 'The first hurdle ... You can't use it on a plane. Google Preso only works if you've got a live, high-bandwidth Internet connection. You can save the finished product to an HTML presentation on your laptop, but you can't edit the saved version or upload it back. The Splunkers would need to finalize their presos early in the morning in a rented conference room, where both Wi-Fi and Verizon wireless cards have been known to fail. That would kill the presentation.'"

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  1. Re:Summary by MS_Newbie · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Please, stop with all that MS=Evil/Google=Good thing.

    I've worked for Google AND Microsoft, and they're not that different. Google is a new company, founded on new/modern principles. Microsoft did in the 90's what other companies did in those days. But now is taking a different direction, following the new style of doing business in these days.

    At Google, the company reputation made us win a lot of money, even if we had some serious as***** behind the desks (not only Google apps are crappy, think on Google Talk, Google Toolbar, Orkut, and so on). The only three BRILLIANT products from Google, so far, are Google Search, Gmail, and Adwords/Adsense (Google Earth was acquired). Keeping that image it's been very good for the wealth of the company (for starters, we saved toooons of money in advertisement), not for users. Wait until Google gets to its 30th anniversary.

    At Microsoft they have/had good and bad products as well. Things have started to change a long time ago, and there's still lots of space for improvement.

    But, at the end, both companies care ONLY about the money (engineers go to Google for the money and the benefits, same as in Microsoft).

    For the people who work in both companies (not the zillionaire executives), all those comments about evil/good companies are ridiculous. They only cause harm for regular workers, and I think we deserve some respect.

    Please, get down to Earth.