Joining Dots: Blog: Rethinking Office

Joining Dots: Blog: Rethinking Office: "ou may or may not have noticed, Google has been rolling out some online services that challenge one of Microsoft's key territories - Office. Google's online version is Google Docs. You can use it to create documents, spreadsheets and presentations using nothing more than a web browser with an Internet connection.

Currently, Microsoft doesn't appear to have an online version of Office available. If there is one, I haven't found it. But searching for variations on 'Office' gets all sorts of junk. Tip for Microsoft. When it comes to having a version of Office available online, consider using the following URLs - http://www.microsoft.com/docs and http://docs.microsoft.com/ ;-)

Here's the interesting part. I've been playing with spreadsheets for a couple of ideas and one feature required me to delve into Google Docs for the first time. Whilst Excel 2007 was best for one solution, Google Docs was best for the other. That, I didn't expect to happen."