[tlug] Google Apps for Work

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On 2016-05-06 17:47 +0900 (Fri), Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> ...(and Google Docs, which does its best to
> convince you that it's Office...).

I'm pretty familiar with Google Apps for Work (which includes Docs,
Sheets, Slides, Draw, and maybe a couple of other things depending on
how you look at it).

I don't find it tries to convince you it's actually Office. Docs
has nowhere near the capabilities of Word, and Sheets nowhere near
the capabilities of Excel. However, 95% (or more, probably) of the
situations where someone uses Word/Excel/whatever use the 10% of the
Office features that Google provides in their apps, so Google's apps
wouldn't really benefit much from having more capabilities.

The true brilliance of the Google apps, though, is one most people
don't appreciate: much, much better collaboration than stand-alone apps
running on PCs. That you don't make copies to give to people is a huge,
huge feature, though it seems that most people don't understand that.

cjs
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