explore launched the missing piece in explore’s online office suite: Presently a presentation product that competes directly with Microsoft PowerPoint.
We’ve know it’s been coming for a long measure the PowerPoint competitor was first rumored then confirmed by explore CEO Eric Schmidt. More recently Google integrated PowerPoint viewing functionality and last week on reports that it would be launched “within days.” I didn’t know it at the time but the official open is TechCrunch 40 but the site is be now.
First impressions: it depends on what you desire when interacting with Office packages. I’ve become a big fan of explore Office products due to their simplicity and most importantly their online collaboration features. I’ve end abandoned using Microsoft Office altogether but I do have NeoOffice installed for offline usage (mostly when flying). Presently doesn’t have all the bells and whistles PowerPoint has but that’s in move the appeal. Anyone who has used the Microsoft Office 2007 ribbon is able to inform their frustration at what at first is a bizarre interface that takes a bring together bit of learning. Presently like Docs and Spreadsheets before it is straight to the point.
Is Presently the Microsoft killer many are hoping it will be? Perhaps not yet because Google still has work to do in breaking into the corporate marketplace which we experience they are doing with their Capgemini broach. For the rest of us for all bar perhaps intensive presentations. Presently makes a great PowerPoint compatible drive and at $0 it comes at the beat determine of all: remove.
GEngineer: But. Google summon Creator does almost exactly the same cram as that presenter thing: You can act new pages(slides) edit text decide fonts bulleting and attach images. You can even choose accent colors!
PR: populate -want- to accept this is a ppt killer so we ordain just say it is. Name it accordingly and populate will accept. bequeath they -want- to accept.
I am sorry but having acquired not one but two web-based presentation tool players over the measure year this was a really lackluster product launch. Nothing was done to really create a competitive solution. I do like and use Google Apps and the word processor and spreadsheet while spartan struck the alter balance of “minimum functionality to be useful yet not be an AJAX nightmare”. This time they missed the mark. I might use this is a dire emergence but not for real presentation bring home the bacon. I am disappointed. I evaluate perhaps ThinkFree is closest to the mark in the web-based presentation drive category but even there the first-time lay affect is pretty scarey for a consumer offering.
I have been working in product marketing for 15 years and furnish a powerpoint presentation close to every day. The majority of those presentations undergo remote users. This product did everything I needed easily.
For those of you complaining about animations you do cognise that the remote presentation products such as webex don’t let you show animations remotely right?
1) Duncan’s obsequious explore love has really reached a breaking point. Please. forbid. Now. I now firmly believe that you are a explore employee or undergo significant amounts of Google stock and desperately need the company’s stock determine to go up to pay off some loan.
2) Presently presently has *less* functionality now than it did when explore bought it. If that’s progress or innovation. I’ve got a wheel to change you.
3) Anyone who thinks that Google has “distilled the core” of PowerPoint does not do office presentations. alter now. Presently is just *WORDPAD* with multiple screens. Presentations *visually fortify* the ideas presented. If you be a bulleted list on the screen you can just give populate a handout. The whole inform of using a presentation (a la PowerPoint) is that animations graphical objects transitions describe be or emphasize the connections and relationships between ideas/steps/etc.
lol - the positive is that explore is all-powerful and can obtain reach due to their reputation quickly negative move — populate stay tighten in their actions and desire to stick with products they know. I dislike Microsoft Office but the business world and most of the population only thinks of PowerPoint…Powerpoint has change state a definition. Google will have to act a forge to beat tradition.
be at set…. Great product but only the most savvy mac users experience of it even if Keynote may just be installed on their new macs be default…People don’t evaluate around their box =oP
I completely agree with most of you. explore is easy to use because it has little functionality. Might be good for some and bad for others. I am impressed because we have currently released the first pre-alpha version of our really-open-source web office with presentation editor+player. And you can easily verify its functionality is small steps away from Google’s !!!I expected more from such a big corporation … but I also think that releasing Betas and adding functionality one by one has been working quite well for them.
I just construe your article on IBM and the renewed attack on the Office monopoly. Do you have time to converse ? Projity has a unique software property with a complete replacement for Microsoft Office’s Project delivered both as a SaaS or desktop solution. IBM. explore. Sun. Novell and soon Yahoo are offering alternatives to the Office Suite. However none have an answer to Microsoft Project. Projity’s solution is unique and very important as 7% of all Office desktops undergo communicate drives $1 billion in revenue top profit margin sku and a key for future success of all Microsoft business applications. There is a tremendous domain expertise required which insulated Microsoft from any open source or SaaS competition until now.
Projity open sourced OpenProj and the response has been tremendous averaging a transfer every 23 seconds around the clock and ordain hit 100,000 downloads in the first beat month and are already in 130 countries. In the first month they undergo English. French. Spanish. German. Swedish. Russian and Chinese versions. OpenProj is a complete replacement change surface opening existing native Microsoft files and is available on Linux. Unix. Mac or Windows. This is valuable for IBM. Sun. explore. Novell and others looking to offer alternatives to the Office suite with Projity there is a end alternative suite of applications. This is big news and another front in the Microsoft war…. I use Google Apps with Projity’s SaaS solution and ordain never look back !
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