fatvegan

Google Docs is pretty sweet, and a lot of their stuff is pretty sweet, but in no serious way does it challenge Microsoft Office. If there is any challenge to Microsoft's Office, then it's OpenOffice, which is hardly a challenger at all. I've used OpenOffice for years know, but I still feel happy when I go back to Word or Excel. Google Docs & Spreadsheets are hugely buggy and dis-satisfying to use. They are slow as well, even though they do much less. I think it will take a new generation of browsers and hardware for web-based office stuff to be a serious threat.

It's just annoying that journalists keep talking about how scared Microsoft is of Google Docs. Google Docs is essentially Writely, which sucked about the same amount several years ago, and you had to be really idealistic or misinformed to ever suggest Writely was a threat to Microsoft. Windows XP with MS Office and Firefox is one of the best basic setups you could hope for. Google will have to work pretty damn hard to bust it up.