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I read that several days ago. It's already part of another forum discussion. Google Docs was supposed to do the same thing.
MS Office is quite safe. People buy office for the compatibility, support, and advanced features. Otherwise, they go with OpenOffice or LibreOffice. Google entering the fray will mean little at this point. Office is going to be well entrenched in iPhone, Android, WindowsPhone, Mac, and Windows. Perhaps the 3 or 4 people that bought Chrome books will use Google's new solution.
MS Office is quite safe. People buy office for the compatibility, support, and advanced features. Otherwise, they go with OpenOffice or LibreOffice. Google entering the fray will mean little at this point. Office is going to be well entrenched in iPhone, Android, WindowsPhone, Mac, and Windows.
Where is the competition? IDK. I tried to talk my wife into getting Office 365 and she said that at this piont Google Docs was good enough for her. I still like Office. I would run it on my Android if I had KitKat.
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I'm late to the party here, but just wanted to add a note to the thread for anyone stumbling upon it.
Google has done an amazing job grabbing users by the gobs for Google Docs, specifically in the education world. Microsoft was asleep at the wheel a few years ago, but they are doing a good job now at reclaiming their presence. Still, when it comes to ed tech, Google is golden in the eyes of the masses, and MS Office is no longer even present on some school campuses.
Just a quick observation. I teach high school. I'm seeing more students using Google Docs. I've always been a fan of Word but let students use what they like. In all honesty, you can hold up a paper/report and tell which ones were typed using Google. The formatting is all jacked up and, overall, they look like crap. This is new to me, as for years only MS Word was used in my school, and this didn't happen very often. Granted, not all Google Docs papers look bad, so I have to be fair there. But I am getting a growing number of stank-ugly looking papers turned it to me, and the bulk of them were typed using Google Docs.