Ainda antes do processador de texto, o Google prepara-se para trazer a público uma folha de cálculo. Como não podia deixar de ser, a blogosfera anda excitadíssima e já praticamente tudo o que podia ser dito e analisado foi dito e analisado. Por isso, aqui estão os links para alguns posts interessantes:
Nicholas Carr: Google’s Office add-on
Google Spreadsheets, released in beta today, is being touted in both the print and online media as a challenger to the ubiquitous Microsoft Excel - part of Google’s mythical “Office killer” suite of online applications.
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This view, while understandable, strikes me as being a complete misreading of Google’s intent. What, after all, is the single most important feature of Google Spreadsheets? The single most important feature - by far - is its compatibility with Excel.
Robert Scoble: Google announces more sleepless nights ahead for MSFT product managers
You’re watching two massively different ideas about how computers should be used battling it out right on the world’s economic stage.
On one hand you have the old standard Office that says “load locally and use local resources.”
On the other hand you have the new, fresh and clean, Google Office that says “load on the server and use a thin client, er browser.”
Dave Winer: Sem título
Sorry Google, but spreadsheets are so 1979.
Solution Watch: Google Spreadsheets in Limited Beta
Similar to the spreadsheet service, Numbler, users can invite their friends or co-workers to work on a spreadsheet collaboratively in real-time. Users can chat with one and another with a chat window similar to what you get with Gmail messaging and even see changes being made to the spreadsheet as the other user works on it. This is excellent for groups or teams for work, although for the average user, I don’t see much benefit in it. I can definitely see myself using it as it seems like every other day I’m on the phone with my boss looking over and modify a spreadsheet, then having to send a finalized copy.
