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I think I don't get the point. Real-time collaboration is something we have already (google docs, hackpad, ...). And besides, if it's true that it works only for IE, what's the point?

EDIT: A guy in this thread told it works only for IE, then this statement was fixed in "also works on Chrome". Since I'm a GNU/Linux user I could not verify myself.

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Google Docs is a far cry from Office. I use Gdocs, because it's good enough for me, but Office works much better, offers better compatibility with its own file format (not surprising), etc.etc... There is a reason why big companies are moving back to Office after a short encounter with GDocs. I am not a shill, I can completely understand why GDocs is enough for people on HN, but there is more out there. :)

>EDIT: A guy in this thread told it works only for IE, then this statement was fixed in "also works on Chrome". Since I'm a GNU/Linux user I could not verify myself.

I'm pretty sure there's a version of Chrome for Linux.

They don't release a binary, but you can build Chromium yourself.

What do you mean, they dont release binary?

https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/?platform=linu...

It even comes with apt repos for simple Debian-style updates.

Who said it only works in IE? Works in Chrome for me.

Apple did just release online versions of the iWork apps with collaboration (I don't know how well it works in real-time, but then I don't know that for Office either). They also made fun of the MS equivalent in their keynote.

I'm sure that's unrelated :-)

Because large parts of the target audience for this feature only uses IE? I work with many companies that will take use of this feature, and none of them use any other browsers than IE. Wether or not IE is any good is irrelevant.

Where did you see that it only works in IE?

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