Google Docs joins word processor with spreadsheet

Google is set to introduce information-sharing software that combines the company's Web-based Google Spreadsheets with Writely, the word processor it acquired in March. The combination of Writely and Google Spreadsheets seeks to solve the problem of how people manage and collaborate information stuck in different word processors and spreadsheets by giving individuals or groups Web access to the same data.

Google Docs & Spreadsheets, as the hybrid service is now known, marks the latest step by the Web search leader to apply consumer Internet logic to standalone computer programs, a market dominated by rival Microsoft. Google Docs & Spreadsheets is currently in public test mode and available for free. Details are at http://docs.google.com.

- Just tried the collaborative editing feature with shooperman and simontay78. It works great. We could edit a document at the same time, and with the spreadsheet there is even an IRC-like chat window where we can discuss the spreadsheet as we edit it! I noted that ctrl-c and ctrl-v works as expected, and a formula can be copied to another cell.

Shoop commented that this is going to be an MS Office killer. This could solve the document sharing/editing problem that various products have been trying to do over the years, but without universal success. Google now has a shot at that.

Note that Office typically costs more than the Windows O/S itself. With Office and Windows being two of their main cash cows, you might like to recall this quote : "We've analyzed their attack, sir, and there is a danger ..."

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