There’s every chance that Google are hoping to occupy some kind of space either peripheral to, or on the edge of Microsoft Office. To qualify this claim, it’s actually very simple: Microsoft Office is a monumental piece of software engineering, which Google can’t hope to replicate. Buying in talent, or even a pre-existing office suite, […]
Tag: Google Apps Premier Edition
Right now, Google Docs & Spreadsheets does not, I repeat, does not compete with Microsoft Office. Nor does the Google Apps suite of applications, which includes the aforementioned Google Docs & Spreadsheets. Simply offering a one-for-one, like-for-like suite of applications doesn’t really add up to something on a par with Microsoft Office, largely because Office […]
Google have split their Google Applications suite into four offerings: Small Business, Enterprise, School and Family or Group. They’ve also given this suite a Microsoft-style name, too: Google Apps Premier Edition. Which I suspect is not by accident, either. But what Google Apps Premier Edition isn’t is a competitor to Microsoft Office: “Today, it introduces […]