Google's word processing software isn't going to satisfy users working on complex documents, rich with footnotes or mathematical notations.
And while Google Docs online spreadsheet and word processing software is stripped down (when compared with Office), it does make it easier for workers to share a single online document and collaborate on it with colleagues--something that gets complicated fast when multiple copies of a Microsoft Word document are blasting around the office.
So far, most have been costly paper-weights or glorified typewriters, running Japanese word-processing software.
The general look and feel needs to convey professionalism and a mastery of word-processing software.
Never mind if nobody uses most of these new features (this article is being typed into word-processing software from 1997, for instance, but it seems to work perfectly well).
They could run only simple spreadsheets and word-processing software.
And Zoho is already pushing into more sophisticated applications, offering customer-management and project-planning software alongside basics such as word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software.
Still, Google's package of e-mail, word processing, calendar, spreadsheet and presentation software does have some advantages.
At a time when the conventional wisdom says that traditional desktop software categories word processing, anti-virus, personal finance are going the way of dial-up modems on account of Google-style Web services, Intel is making its biggest acquisition ever with a company deeply rooted in the world of traditional Windows computing.
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Google appears intent on offering ever more of the things that used to be sold as software such as word processing or spreadsheets as free online services.
The machine itself ships with a couple of good games, the AppleWorks (formerly ClarisWorks) word-processing and spreadsheet package, some graphics software, both the Microsoft and Netscape Web browsers, and a good e-mail program.
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While Google can launch online spreadsheet and word processing applications, Microsoft can't respond without damaging its powerful Office software business.
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