There are a number of markets where a free hosted office suite could take hold, particularly the education market. Security-conscious companies are not about to entrust critical documents and spreadsheets to Google. Google Docs is unlikely to gain adoption in the enterprise. Google’s model of putting betas out there then enhancing them over time, suggests that the combination of Writely, Spreadsheets and Calendar has the potential to gain traction. While Content Matters ponders the adoption of Google Docs & Spreadsheets by the business sector: Some pieces of the puzzle are still missing, but Google can’t deny they don’t want to build Google Office. The next logical move would be to add a new web application for presentations and to integrate all these applications with Gmail, Google Calendar and Picasa Web, so they can share attachments, photos and documents. Ionut Alex comments on possible next steps: Or, when you star a file, the whole page will stall momentarily (unlike in Gmail, where this is happening behind the scenes). Another example is that Google’s default name when you want to save a spreadsheet is “Unsaved spreadsheet” – duh, when you save it it’s not unsaved anymore, so the name never makes sense. For example, new docs open in the same window whereas new spreadsheets and old docs launch in a second window. There are still some quirks to be worked out here. And use of Google’s online office applications is free. Still, the ability to import and collaborate on a document, and then publish it to the web or take it back to the desktop, is a powerful feature not available to Microsoft Office users outside of Office Live or Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Server. Google is straightforward in its goal to excel in collaboration and sharing of documents, while agreeing that desktop office applications will continue to offer superior editing features for the foreseeable future.
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