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Google Finally Kicks Microsoft's Apps

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As Dan Frommer of the Silicon Valley Insider  points out, The WSJ has reported that Google is building a store for Google Apps - the business version of Gmail, Docs, Spreadsheets, and the Calendar (all of which I use in my practice). The Google Apps Store would allow customers to buy add-ons only if and when needed to extend their basic Google Apps environment without having to buy the whole enchilada. Apparently Microsoft still has not gotten the memo however, as its Office 2010 (which I am now beta-testing) is still bloated, slow, and crash-prone in the proud MS tradition. This as Google tries to disrupt several Microsoft businesses, including its Office and Windows giants, and its Exchange email business. Google could announce the App Store as soon as March, the WSJ's Jessica Vascellaro says. Like the App Stores flourishing in the mobile industry, Google could collect a cut from sales while passing the majority of revenue along to developers.

Comments (1)

Feb 04, 2010
Steven Levy said...
You must not be using the same Office 2010 apps I am. They've so far been crashproof, and Word 2010 handles the manuscript for my 364-page book (Legal Project Management) faster than Word 2007. Outlook has been a problem with POP3 accounts, but Google Docs doesn't include an Outlook analog; GMail is separate. Generally apps speed up between beta and release. By the way, if you're complaining that a beta is buggy, you shouldn't be using betas. They're TEST versions.

Feel free to dislike MSFT and prefer GOOG apps; there's a case to be made, but you're not making it.

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