Your right, and don't get me started on Google staring a search engine 4 years after Lycos and Go.com. I mean what's the point.
What am I missing?
Even though I think your trolling I'll bite and give you an honest answer.
There are a few reasons:
1) Google Docs isn't that good.
2) clients want a desktop office suite with the option for a web based office suite to do light work when not at their main machine.
3) people who use the online apps are a click away from downloading and buying the desktop version of office
4) its training non paying customers to use office for when they need a more powerful office suite.
This feature has been essential for so many years that I've stopped using Office entirely. Most of my docs are shared and edited among a few collaborators.
I'll reconsider office 1.) when it is free 2.) when it works seamlessly on a Mac.
What I'm saying is that the online version of Office is both free and will run in a browser on your Mac. In my opinion at least, the web-based Office 2013 apps make Google Docs look like a toy - especially if you need to interop with native Office documents.
Your right, and don't get me started on Google staring a search engine 4 years after Lycos and Go.com. I mean what's the point.
What am I missing?
Even though I think your trolling I'll bite and give you an honest answer.
There are a few reasons:
1) Google Docs isn't that good. 2) clients want a desktop office suite with the option for a web based office suite to do light work when not at their main machine. 3) people who use the online apps are a click away from downloading and buying the desktop version of office 4) its training non paying customers to use office for when they need a more powerful office suite.