Google Docs To Delete Office 2K?
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Office 2000 is indeed, older than most people might care to admit. But for many folks, it is just what the doctor ordered and does what they need it to do. Sadly, it is coming to an end of life here soon, which means there will be no more security patches for this software. Will this translate into more people making the switch over to Google Docs? Not for those who have never heard of it.
With all of the excitement at the prospect seeing massive number of people suddenly dropping MS Office 2000 for Google Docs, apparently the fact that most people have no idea what Google Docs is or does, has not entered into anyone’s mind?
I would go on to say that there are there are plenty of reasons why using Google Docs make a lot of sense for most people. This being said though, others still, might prefer to use Open Office instead? But there will always be those, especially those who do a lot of document sharing, who are willing to fork out the cast for MS Office in its most current form. But they are not using old MS Office 2000 now, are they?
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Alfred
May 22nd, 2009
at 5:04am
Perhaps, I personally use Google Docs even when I have access to Microsoft Office. I think the simplicity really attracts casual users and then functionality attracts the more hardcore people. I heard somewhere that the next version of Microsoft Office is going to be online. Still, even if MS Office did go online, I’d still use Google Docs because it works with all my other Google apps. It is because of this that I actually think that most people will start using Google Docs, it just works. =)
Rishabh Mishra
May 25th, 2009
at 6:08pm
My opinion is in contrast to Alfred. When doing serious work, I prefer to use a desktop word processor simply because Google Docs has a variety of issues, some of them related to the browser, that cannot be easily fixed.
One issue is indentation. There is no quick way to indent a paragraph. There is a button to indent a paragraph, but I don’t think that I should have to click a button to complete such a simple task. I don’t like the loss of productivity when I move my hands from the keyboard to the mouse.
However, I still use Google Docs to some extent, but only to hold non-critical, non-professional documents; basically just for when I want to get a few thoughts down.