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Google Updates Docs, Sheets and Slides With New Collaboration Features (techcrunch.com)
An anonymous reader writes: G Suite, Google's set of online productivity tools, is getting a major update today that adds a number of new features to Google Docs, Sheets and Slides. Most of these updates focus around collaboration, but the service is also getting support for Google Cloud Search and the company is adding new templates and add-ons from partners like LegalZoom, DocuSign, LucidChart and others. [...] Google Docs Sheets and Slides now lets you track changes by saving multiple versions of a document with different names. The new integration with Google Cloud Search in Docs and Slides means that G Suite Business and Enterprise users will now be able to quickly find the right information from their internal documents without having to leave the editor.
But that would mean stepping on Discord and Slack's toes.
i love him, don't you?
Web 2.0 has been going on for almost a decade now. Over this time we've seen attempts made to build more and more complex web apps using technologies like HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and AJAX. Yet despite all of this time, and all of this effort, these web apps typically can't even compete with the desktop apps we had in the mid 1990s. At this point I have to wonder, will web apps ever catch up to desktop apps? Will the capabilities of web apps ever match those of desktop apps? Will the performance of web apps ever match those of desktop apps? I'm really starting to doubt that they ever will catch up. It's like they will perpetually be second-class citizens when compared to real applications.
>> lets you track changes by saving multiple versions of a document with different names
I thought "multiple versions of a document with different names" was one of the problems SOLVED by Google Docs. (No more trying to reconcile 4 people's personally edited documents into one master document.)
What, exactly, are they introducing and why?
I am anti nazi so I am doing even more business with them.
Sure sure not your march, you aren't them...but they chose you guys to march w for a reason.
The new web based chart editor is nice.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Charts in mobile is there.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Doing business with a large corporation that offshores their profits to avoid paying tax, pays women less than men for the same work, and the average employee age is 29 so they are ageist?
Wow, you must have no moral compass whatsoever.
"Enterprise users will now be able to quickly find the right information from their internal documents..."
So will Alphabet, the NSA and any successful hacker. Certainly -enterprise- users should know better.
The lack of scatter plot options basically has made it useless to me. I generally like the applications, but google has stopped regular updates.
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
Sheets and open have been broken for some time.
I can see the templates and create a new document, but never get back to that document again.
Google Voice (the new version) hasn't worked ... er ... ever. But at least they have a "legacy site" button that still works.
Google is good at making things that are beta for 5 yrs, then screwing them up and never fixing them for months and months. They drive me away and due to this, it is just safest to avoid using or becoming dependent on google-anything to avoid business destroying issues.
LibreOffice 4Evr!
You can't use them if you're a white male.
Commies are the braindead Tools of rich freemasons 90% of time.
Bingo. Use an rpi Server and OpenOffice.
Secure IT using SSH.
Plus OpenOffice. That is a solution which protects your property and your freedom of speech.
SVN and SSH provide the Same, Just without NSA Sharing of your property.
One thing "web apps" tend to do, is get updated in ways that "no longer supports" your browser, forcing you to "upgrade", even though no such upgrade might be available, or exist at all, for your platform. Which might trigger having to buy new hardware and leave otherwise perfectly fine functional hardware by the roadside.
Of course, many geeks do that already out of habit, because of the faster hardware rush and having learned that keeping with the times is the thing to do and so on, but... it's mindless, and simply not an option for some.
So for raw getting stuff done, moreover for hanging on to that ability to get stuff done, you're much better off with a working system and all "apps" local. No automatic updates, no cloud, no nothing. It gives you control and much lower risk of suddenly no longer functioning because of external factors.
Because, let's be fair, you still can and some people do still use not merely 90s, but 80s technology, like WordStar in a dosbox, to write their documents, and it works just fine, thank you. You don't get to easily share it on a website, but instead of providing that as an add-on to whatever you're using, google et al. chose to reimplement the functionality in a poorer way, using much more code, and reducing the usable functionality per amount of code metric by several orders of magnitude. Progress.