Livin' la Vida Google
Wired News editor Michael Calore used nothing but Google Apps for a month.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 by whiterabbit007 | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Quote from the article:
"I wanted to test Google Apps' viability as an office suite, but also to see how close we are to tomorrow's promise of the web-based desktop. The proliferation of web-based office suites from companies like Zoho, ThinkFree and Google have set wide-eyed technological optimists -- myself included -- raving breathlessly about the web workplace of the future. But the only way to see if this dream is close to reality was to put my data where my mouth is and take the plunge."
Google has been pushing web apps for some time now, and from personal experience with Google Spreadsheets there are advantages and disadvantages to the system. While I'm a GMail user, and as mentioned use Google Spreadsheets, I have yet to fully plunge into the world of Google Apps and so I found this a very interesting read.
"I wanted to test Google Apps' viability as an office suite, but also to see how close we are to tomorrow's promise of the web-based desktop. The proliferation of web-based office suites from companies like Zoho, ThinkFree and Google have set wide-eyed technological optimists -- myself included -- raving breathlessly about the web workplace of the future. But the only way to see if this dream is close to reality was to put my data where my mouth is and take the plunge."
Google has been pushing web apps for some time now, and from personal experience with Google Spreadsheets there are advantages and disadvantages to the system. While I'm a GMail user, and as mentioned use Google Spreadsheets, I have yet to fully plunge into the world of Google Apps and so I found this a very interesting read.
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