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I agree. Especially about Office. I can't believe Alley Insider called GoogleDocs a direct competitor to Office. I see how Google Docs competes with Microsoft for the market of people that prefer to make spreadsheets and documents with 90's era tools, but for users who care about their work Office is much more powerful. The only cool thing about Google Docs is that it allows you to easily share lousy documents and spreadsheets with your friends.

[kijiki]

There is a book you might find illuminating: http://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Busin... also, the essay "worse is better".

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I understand your point, but I think it is much easier for Microsoft to add better online collaboration to Office than for Google to add the extremely robust and powerful features of Excel to GoogleDocs. I think there is a market for GoogleDocs, but I don't think it's going to cut into Office's $$. GoogleDocs doesn't offer anything that Office '98 did besides online collaboration. I don't think many people would give up the office suite for GD, and as I said before--Microsoft has the hard part done--online collab is a lot easier.