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Microsoft Accuses Google Docs of Data Infidelity
Hugh Pickens writes "For years Google has been pitching migrations from Microsoft Office to Google Docs, arguing that Docs makes Office 2003 and 2007 better because users can store Microsoft Office documents in Google's cloud and share them in their original format. Now eWeek reports that Alex Payne, director of Microsoft's online product management team, says that moving files created with Office to Google Docs results in the loss of data fidelity, including the loss of such data components as charts, styles, watermarks, fonts, tracked changes, and SmartArt. 'They are claiming that an organization can use both seamlessly,' Payne writes. 'This just isn't the case.' Meanwhile, Google defended its original 'Docs makes Office better' in a statement, noting that it has made a lot of improvements to the web editors in Docs with its recent refresh, and promising that functionality will only get better as Google integrates the DocVerse assets into Docs. 'It says a lot about Microsoft's approach to customer lock-in that the company touts its proprietary document formats, which only Microsoft software can render with true fidelity, as the reason to avoid using other products,' says a Google spokesperson."
Open formats? From MS. That's a paradocs! They can't even faithfully render some older versions of their own stuff accurately.
Open formats? From MS. That's a paradocs!
I see what you did there.
You fail at being a Grammar Nazi.
You begin by launching a colon without satisfying the grammatical prerequisites: A colon must always be preceded by a complete sentence. You followed that up with another neat trick: You inexplicably added phantom periods into some of your quotes. Periods are people too, and I’m sure they would be rather annoyed at being dragged into quotes they have no business being in. Moving along, it is also incorrect to capitalize the first word after a colon unless the word is a proper noun, or it is the first word in a complete sentence.
You'll be interested to know that you fail at using semicolons, too; semicolons must be preceded and followed by complete sentences.
Finally, your third sentence sounds like something out of a third-grader's journal, you might want to add a "there" in there.
You should probably focus less on correcting the zomg-grammars-of-the-internets, and more on solidifying your grammatical command.
A good day to both you and your horse, sir.
You mean the Portable PDF Document Format?
"Uh, if Google cannot make their Docs applications compatible with Office formats, how is it Microsoft's fault?"
Because they keep everything a secret - thats been their way of destroying opposition.
Logic fail.
If I slept with your wife and keep that a secret from you, that secrecy isn't why you can't give her an orgasm.
In the same line of thought, if you sleep with my wife and keep it a secret from me, that secrecy isn't why you can't give her an orgasm either.
Google could make progress on this by buying twenty or so really good body fonts outright from a major font foundry, and setting them up for download on demand for Google Docs.
Or, they could go the way of Arial and just make up their own set of fonts that are close enough to the popular Microsoft ones. It would be kind of playing dirty, but who knows if Google's typeface creators could come up with some stuff that's better than what Microsoft has.
Better than Comic Sans? You're insane!!! ;-)
StarTrekPhase2 - The Five Year Mission Continues!
When Microsoft badmouths a rival product, then you know it must be really good...
Google should make an ad out of this, really
"Would Microsoft badmouth Google Docs, if it wasn't really great?"
The MAFIAA is a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes
At time of this posting parent is modded zero.
All parent did was to provide the exact information GP was asking for. Is the truth really so inconvenient?
Even if you don't agree, please show some integrity when modding, ok?
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