Microsoft: Google Docs Is Not Worth The Gamble, Makes You Less Productive

While I can't speak for the new office online stuff, almost every time I've tried to put office files on Google docs it messed them up. So to me and I think other people involved in business stuff they have a point when they talk about loss of reputation etc. For techies etc if Google docs screws up you can all laugh it off and think it'll get better eventually but I think a lot of people doing business won't stand for it.

Still Google Docs is certainly better than old Office with collaboration, but even that has problems. For instance recently I was editing a 20 page document collaboratively and if we're both adding and removing lines at once it starts jumping all over the place making it super hard to use. Ultimately I think collaboration is vital and online will win out but they still have a ways to go to be completely usable.