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echo: barktopus
to: Phil Payne
from: Robert Comer
date: 2006-06-06 09:46:58
subject: Re: Google again

From: "Robert Comer" 

I still say the same thing, this isn't a replacement for a local
spreadsheet program by any means, only slightly more sophisticated than a
viewer and it can't even print correctly.

I'll take my Excel (or OO!) locally thank you.

--
Bob Comer


"Phil Payne"  wrote in
message news:44857792{at}w3.nls.net...
> Remember the universal derision that greeted my comment about Google now
> de
> facto owning the desktop just a few weeks ago?
>
> http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/06/06/spreadsheets/index.php
>
> "Google Spreadsheets will allow users to import and export spreadsheets in
> the .xls format used by Microsoft Excel and the more generic .csv (common
> separated values) format, the company said late Monday. Through a Web
> browser, users in remote locations will be able to view and simultaneously
> edit data. The software is platform-neutral, meaning it can be accessed
> using a number of browsers, including the open-source Firefox, Microsoft's
> Internet Explorer or Apple's Safari."
>
> Microsoft's business is over.  All that we have to watch are the death
> throes of the corpse.
>
> --
>  Phil Payne
>  http://www.isham-research.co.uk
>  +44 7833 654 800
>
>
>

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