Comments on: Who, us? An Office suite? Never. http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/02/22/who-us-an-office-suite-never/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Raju Vegesna http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/02/22/who-us-an-office-suite-never/comment-page-1/#comment-233003 Raju Vegesna Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:28:36 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/02/22/who-us-an-office-suite-never/#comment-233003 Google certainly doesn't want to call themselves an office suite...but when you search for 'Online Office' in Google, the first ad that comes up is 'Office tools from Google' :) Google certainly doesn’t want to call themselves an office suite…but when you search for ‘Online Office’ in Google, the first ad that comes up is ‘Office tools from Google’ :)

]]> By: Mathew http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/02/22/who-us-an-office-suite-never/comment-page-1/#comment-230426 Mathew Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:04:04 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/02/22/who-us-an-office-suite-never/#comment-230426 Thanks for the comment, Vanessa. I still think the answer is apps and services that blend online and offline, the way that Zoho is trying to. That's where I expect Google to go next -- and perhaps Microsoft as well. I certainly would be if I were them. Thanks for the comment, Vanessa. I still think the answer is apps and services that blend online and offline, the way that Zoho is trying to. That’s where I expect Google to go next — and perhaps Microsoft as well. I certainly would be if I were them.

]]> By: Vanessa Williams http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/02/22/who-us-an-office-suite-never/comment-page-1/#comment-230392 Vanessa Williams Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:38:50 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/02/22/who-us-an-office-suite-never/#comment-230392 I think Mary Jo Foley is dead-on about businesses not wanting to store data in the cloud. It's a fact. And while Paul K. may be right about SMB's preferring this over paying the full cost of MS Office, there are other ways to do this (OpenOffice, for example), which are a) free, and b) don't force you to turn over your business communications to a third-party. There is surely room for all these sorts of solutions, and new types we haven't seen (much of) yet, besides. It's tempting to search for a single, elegant, unified theory of network-centric applications, but unifiying the desktop and the web may turn out to be like unifying general relativity and quantum mechanics: a real brain-bender. I think Mary Jo Foley is dead-on about businesses not wanting to store data in the cloud. It’s a fact. And while Paul K. may be right about SMB’s preferring this over paying the full cost of MS Office, there are other ways to do this (OpenOffice, for example), which are a) free, and b) don’t force you to turn over your business communications to a third-party.

There is surely room for all these sorts of solutions, and new types we haven’t seen (much of) yet, besides.

It’s tempting to search for a single, elegant, unified theory of network-centric applications, but unifiying the desktop and the web may turn out to be like unifying general relativity and quantum mechanics: a real brain-bender.

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