Microsoft Word Web App vs. Google Docs
Submitted by Linux Resource News on June 8, 2010 – 2:53 pm2 Comments
Microsoft’s Office Web Apps is open to the public. Here is a look at how Microsoft competes against Google when it comes to Web-based online word processing. Microsoft – Office Web Apps – Google Docs – Google – microsoftoffice
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One can say that this is a direct Microsoft’s answer to Google docs. Maybe you have noticed, that Google has been lately trying really hard to move large and paying customers to Google Docs or better said to its Google cloud.
As far as I heard, MS Word Web App should be also advertisement supported so it may cause some problems with users since it will scan your documents and display relevant ads. Sure, gmail does the same but I guess documents are more personal than emails.
Will it change?
Yes. It has been speculated that the reason Google took gmail out of beta was to prepare for the push to market Google Apps to Enterprise customers.
I certainly agree that scanning document content for ad relevance just feels wrong.
Microsoft seems to be struggling to find innovative solutions in every part of their business with the exception of the XBox and Project Natal. They are riding the wave of success from previous decades. That wave can’t last forever. Most of their recent offerings are following rather than leading and are too little too late.