Ask Slashdot: Can Quickoffice On Chromebooks Topple Microsoft's Office?

Nerval's Lobster writes "As we discussed yesterday, Google is bringing a Quickoffice viewer to its new high-end Chromebook Pixel, with full editing ability expected within three months. According to TechCrunch, Quickoffice-on-Chromebooks comes courtesy of Native Client. If Chromebooks prove a hit (and Google ports Quickoffice onto devices other than the ultra-high-priced Chromebook Pixel), could that mean the beginning of the end of Microsoft Office's market dominance of the productivity software space? While Microsoft has been pushing into the cloud with software like Office 365, that's also Google's home territory. But can Google actually disrupt the game?"

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Re:No.

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LaTeX produces a superior product ... I don't know of anything that, on the back end, typesets so elegantly, and on the front end, allows an author to focus on content so well. But think about it. Using LaTeX requires --- perish the thought --- a /brain/. An active, working one at that. So it's a non-starter in about 99.9% of the world's office environments.