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7 years after Google Docs. What am I missing?

> 7 years after Google Docs. What am I missing?

Your right, and don't get me started on Google staring a search engine 4 years after Lycos and Go.com. I mean what's the point.

What am I missing?

Even though I think your trolling I'll bite and give you an honest answer.

There are a few reasons:

1) Google Docs isn't that good. 2) clients want a desktop office suite with the option for a web based office suite to do light work when not at their main machine. 3) people who use the online apps are a click away from downloading and buying the desktop version of office 4) its training non paying customers to use office for when they need a more powerful office suite.

So just because other tools have this feature it is bad that Office gets it too? I use Microsoft Office and this is certainly a welcomed feature.

This feature has been essential for so many years that I've stopped using Office entirely. Most of my docs are shared and edited among a few collaborators.

I'll reconsider office 1.) when it is free 2.) when it works seamlessly on a Mac.

> I'll reconsider office 1.) when it is free 2.) when it works seamlessly on a Mac.

So, for the past year or two? https://office.microsoft.com/en-us/myoffice.aspx

The free online Office apps work great in Chrome on both Windows and Mac (not sure about Linux).

Office for Mac. For free online apps I've got Google Docs.

Last one I paid for was Office 08 for Mac and it was quite buggy.

What I'm saying is that the online version of Office is both free and will run in a browser on your Mac. In my opinion at least, the web-based Office 2013 apps make Google Docs look like a toy - especially if you need to interop with native Office documents.

8 years after EditGrid.

Never heard of EditGrid before but looks like it will be switched off in May, 2014.

1 guys "hobby" vs. 60,000 Microsofties.

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