Comments on: Google Completes Office Triple Play With Presently http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/ Startup and Technology News Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:08:56 -0800 hourly 1 By:   Zimbra e a volta do Yahoo - Fudeblog by Cesar Cardoso http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/comment-page-1/#comment-2133069   Zimbra e a volta do Yahoo - Fudeblog by Cesar Cardoso Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:53:31 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/#comment-2133069 [...] mais precisa: um competidor na arena de serviços office de base online (EDIT: Google que, aliás, completa o triple-play com o [...] [...] mais precisa: um competidor na arena de serviços office de base online (EDIT: Google que, aliás, completa o triple-play com o [...]

]]> By: ComputersConfuseMe Blog http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/comment-page-1/#comment-1674198 ComputersConfuseMe Blog Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:11:26 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/#comment-1674198 <strong>Online Documents = Easy Collaboration!...</strong> They guys at “The Common Craft Show” use pen and paper to explain things in “plain english” and they do a great job! You don’t have to be technical to understand their videos and keep up with what’s going on out ther... Online Documents = Easy Collaboration!…

They guys at “The Common Craft Show” use pen and paper to explain things in “plain english” and they do a great job! You don’t have to be technical to understand their videos and keep up with what’s going on out ther…

]]> By: Rojo: TechCrunch40; NYTimes Freed; Taser Politics at Food Safety Trends http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/comment-page-1/#comment-1669924 Rojo: TechCrunch40; NYTimes Freed; Taser Politics at Food Safety Trends Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:09:44 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/#comment-1669924 [...] Yahoo paid $350 million for Zimbra, an open-source alternative to Google Apps and Microsoft Exchange, blogs AllThingsD. Even though VCs made 10 times their investment, this is still considered a bold, smart move by Yahoo, blogs Read/Write Web. Yahoo gets stronger in competition with Google Apps, Zimbra gets a partner that can scale, and Office 2.0 apps get higher valuations, blogs Silicon Valley Watcher. Google isn’t exactly sitting still: Mountain View launched Presently, its PowerPoint clone, as part of the Google Docs suite reports Read/Write Web. That completes the office triple play, blogs TechCrunch’s Duncan Riley, who has given up using Microsoft Office altogether. [...] [...] Yahoo paid $350 million for Zimbra, an open-source alternative to Google Apps and Microsoft Exchange, blogs AllThingsD. Even though VCs made 10 times their investment, this is still considered a bold, smart move by Yahoo, blogs Read/Write Web. Yahoo gets stronger in competition with Google Apps, Zimbra gets a partner that can scale, and Office 2.0 apps get higher valuations, blogs Silicon Valley Watcher. Google isn’t exactly sitting still: Mountain View launched Presently, its PowerPoint clone, as part of the Google Docs suite reports Read/Write Web. That completes the office triple play, blogs TechCrunch’s Duncan Riley, who has given up using Microsoft Office altogether. [...]

]]> By: அறிவியல் இன்று | சற்றுமுன்... http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/comment-page-1/#comment-1632522 அறிவியல் இன்று | சற்றுமுன்... Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:18:25 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/#comment-1632522 [...] ஏற்கெனவே word processing மற்றும் spreadsheet வகை மென்பொருள்களை இணையத்தில் அளித்துவந்த கூகிள் நிறவனம் இப்போழுது அதன் தொடர்ச்சியாக presentation மென்பொருள் ஒன்றையும் அறிமுகப்படுத்…. [...]

]]> By: Mike Johnson http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/comment-page-1/#comment-1632506 Mike Johnson Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:09:17 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/#comment-1632506 I just read your article on IBM and the renewed attack on the Office monopoly. Do you have time to chat ? Projity has a unique software property with a complete replacement for Microsoft Office's Project, delivered both as a SaaS or desktop solution. IBM, Google, 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 have Project, 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 download every 23 seconds around the clock and will hit 100,000 downloads in the first full month and are already in 130 countries. In the first month they have English, French, Spanish, German, Swedish, Russian and Chinese versions. OpenProj is a complete replacement, even opening existing native Microsoft files and is available on Linux, Unix, Mac or Windows. This is valuable for IBM, Sun, Google, Novell and others looking to offer alternatives to the Office suite, with Projity there is a complete 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 will never look back ! I just read your article on IBM and the renewed attack on the Office monopoly. Do you have time to chat ? Projity has a unique software property with a complete replacement for Microsoft Office’s Project, delivered both as a SaaS or desktop solution. IBM, Google, 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 have Project, 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 download every 23 seconds around the clock and will hit 100,000 downloads in the first full month and are already in 130 countries. In the first month they have English, French, Spanish, German, Swedish, Russian and Chinese versions. OpenProj is a complete replacement, even opening existing native Microsoft files and is available on Linux, Unix, Mac or Windows. This is valuable for IBM, Sun, Google, Novell and others looking to offer alternatives to the Office suite, with Projity there is a complete 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 will never look back !

]]> By: Bo http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/comment-page-1/#comment-1632112 Bo Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:45:06 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/#comment-1632112 The look and feel is gorgious. Apart from Opengoo, any other opens source alternatives anyone could recommend? The look and feel is gorgious. Apart from Opengoo, any other opens source alternatives anyone could recommend?

]]> By: Marcos http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/comment-page-1/#comment-1631376 Marcos Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:29:11 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/#comment-1631376 I completely agree with most of you, Google 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 completely agree with most of you, Google 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.

]]> By: Greg http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/comment-page-1/#comment-1629586 Greg Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:18:16 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/#comment-1629586 Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have any capability to export to powerpoint or openoffice. If they want any kind of corporate adoption, they'll need interoperability with these offline standard apps. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to have any capability to export to powerpoint or openoffice. If they want any kind of corporate adoption, they’ll need interoperability with these offline standard apps.

]]> By: Sam http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/comment-page-1/#comment-1628970 Sam Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:02:52 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/#comment-1628970 I thought this would be more robust I thought this would be more robust

]]> By: Zuggu.com http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/comment-page-1/#comment-1628802 Zuggu.com Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:43:38 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/#comment-1628802 I was expecting much more form them, as I did with Google Docs. The product is OK, not something I would "become a big fan of " On the other hand I really think Duncan review is really vitiated, for some reason it sounded as propaganda... free obviously. I was expecting much more form them, as I did with Google Docs. The product is OK, not something I would “become a big fan of ” On the other hand I really think Duncan review is really vitiated, for some reason it sounded as propaganda… free obviously.

]]> By: iMarketingGuru (SEM Wiki) http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/comment-page-1/#comment-1628680 iMarketingGuru (SEM Wiki) Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:40:03 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/#comment-1628680 lol - the positive is that Google is all-powerful and can gain reach due to their reputation quickly, negative part -- People stay firm in their actions and like to stick with products they know. I hate Microsoft Office, but the business world and most of the population only thinks of PowerPoint...Powerpoint has become a definition, Google will have to create a machine to beat tradition. Look at Keynote....Great product, but only the most savvy mac users know of it, even if Keynote may just be installed on their new macs be default...People don't think around their box =oP lol – the positive is that Google is all-powerful and can gain reach due to their reputation quickly, negative part — People stay firm in their actions and like to stick with products they know. I hate Microsoft Office, but the business world and most of the population only thinks of PowerPoint…Powerpoint has become a definition, Google will have to create a machine to beat tradition.

Look at Keynote….Great product, but only the most savvy mac users know of it, even if Keynote may just be installed on their new macs be default…People don’t think around their box =oP

]]> By: Jeff http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/comment-page-1/#comment-1628650 Jeff Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:26:28 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/#comment-1628650 Finally! Now if they would just build a Google Doc's App for my blackberry.... Finally!

Now if they would just build a Google Doc’s App for my blackberry….

]]> By: Jorge http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/comment-page-1/#comment-1628548 Jorge Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:43:38 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/#comment-1628548 Wow. Several observations: 1) Duncan's obsequious Google love has really reached a breaking point. Please. Stop. Now. I now firmly believe that you are a Google employee or have significant amounts of Google stock, and desperately need the company's stock price to go up to pay off some loan. 2) Presently presently has *less* functionality now than it did when Google bought it. If that's progress or innovation, I've got a wheel to sell you. 3) Anyone who thinks that Google has "distilled the core" of PowerPoint does not do office presentations. Right now, Presently is just *WORDPAD* with multiple screens. Presentations *visually fortify* the ideas presented. If you want a bulleted list on the screen, you can just give people a handout. The whole point of using a presentation (a la PowerPoint) is that animations, graphical objects, transitions describe, exemplify, or emphasize the connections and relationships between ideas/steps/etc. 4) If you're using remote presentations, you're a) wasting your time and b) wasting the time of your audience. Wow. Several observations:

1) Duncan’s obsequious Google love has really reached a breaking point. Please. Stop. Now. I now firmly believe that you are a Google employee or have significant amounts of Google stock, and desperately need the company’s stock price to go up to pay off some loan.

2) Presently presently has *less* functionality now than it did when Google bought it. If that’s progress or innovation, I’ve got a wheel to sell you.

3) Anyone who thinks that Google has “distilled the core” of PowerPoint does not do office presentations. Right now, Presently is just *WORDPAD* with multiple screens.
Presentations *visually fortify* the ideas presented. If you want a bulleted list on the screen, you can just give people a handout. The whole point of using a presentation (a la PowerPoint) is that animations, graphical objects, transitions describe, exemplify, or emphasize the connections and relationships between ideas/steps/etc.

4) If you’re using remote presentations, you’re a) wasting your time and b) wasting the time of your audience.

]]> By: Ron http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/comment-page-1/#comment-1628520 Ron Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:33:35 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/#comment-1628520 I tried it and was able to build a simple presentation, with lists and images, within 5 minutes. I started the slideshow, emailed the link to myself and opened it on another computer, and was able to follow the remote presentation perfectly. I have been working in product marketing for 15 years, and give a powerpoint presentation close to every day. The majority of those presentations have remote users. This product did everything I needed, easily. For those of you complaining about animations, you do realize that the remote presentation products such as webex don't let you show animations remotely, right? Waah waaah waaaah, bitch bitch bitch. This product is excellent and extremely useful. I tried it and was able to build a simple presentation, with lists and images, within 5 minutes. I started the slideshow, emailed the link to myself and opened it on another computer, and was able to follow the remote presentation perfectly.

I have been working in product marketing for 15 years, and give a powerpoint presentation close to every day. The majority of those presentations have remote users. This product did everything I needed, easily.

For those of you complaining about animations, you do realize that the remote presentation products such as webex don’t let you show animations remotely, right?

Waah waaah waaaah, bitch bitch bitch. This product is excellent and extremely useful.

]]> By: Eric http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/comment-page-1/#comment-1628514 Eric Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:30:29 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/#comment-1628514 Given that they bought not one but *two* companies working on a web-based powerpoint, this seems pretty feature-sparse. I wonder why? And where's their damn wiki product? It's been nearly a year since they bought Jot, and that's the one I've been waiting for. Given that they bought not one but *two* companies working on a web-based powerpoint, this seems pretty feature-sparse. I wonder why?

And where’s their damn wiki product? It’s been nearly a year since they bought Jot, and that’s the one I’ve been waiting for.

]]> By: Mitch http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/comment-page-1/#comment-1628469 Mitch Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:08:42 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/#comment-1628469 Wow. As far as I can tell, this release has none of the Zenter functionality rolled into it and looks identical to something I saw months ago. It has the least amount of functionality in any available online presentation app. Check out SlideRocket if you want to see a true rich internet presentation app... http://www.sliderocket.com Wow. As far as I can tell, this release has none of the Zenter functionality rolled into it and looks identical to something I saw months ago. It has the least amount of functionality in any available online presentation app.

Check out SlideRocket if you want to see a true rich internet presentation app…
http://www.sliderocket.com

]]> By: sb http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/comment-page-1/#comment-1628445 sb Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:59:03 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/#comment-1628445 Seems more like a competitor of sorts to Webex or Netmeeting. I don't see a way to run presentation offline. Seems more like a competitor of sorts to Webex or Netmeeting. I don’t see a way to run presentation offline.

]]> By: Ali Karbassi http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/comment-page-1/#comment-1628410 Ali Karbassi Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:44:44 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/#comment-1628410 It's funny but I called this out couple months ago. Here's the actual post about it: http://tech.karbassi.com/2007/06/27/presentations-coming-to-google-docs-spreadsheets/ It’s funny but I called this out couple months ago. Here’s the actual post about it: http://tech.kar...s-spreadsheets/

]]> By: Mike Abundo http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/comment-page-1/#comment-1628138 Mike Abundo Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:43:47 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/#comment-1628138 Presently versus PowerPoint. How appropriate: a name denoting relevance versus a name denoting politics. Presently versus PowerPoint. How appropriate: a name denoting relevance versus a name denoting politics.

]]> By: Sanjay Kumar http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/comment-page-1/#comment-1628096 Sanjay Kumar Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:23:29 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/#comment-1628096 Not hard to achieve "ease of use" with virtually no features. Wait until they start adding features. Not hard to achieve “ease of use” with virtually no features. Wait until they start adding features.

]]> By: Miki Man http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/comment-page-1/#comment-1628003 Miki Man Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:41:30 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/#comment-1628003 I sware google has been outdone by Preezo, those fools will be acquired ASAP. I sware google has been outdone by Preezo, those fools will be acquired ASAP.

]]> By: John McKinley http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/comment-page-1/#comment-1627980 John McKinley Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:31:46 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/#comment-1627980 I am sorry, but having acquired not one, but two web-based presentation tool players over the last year, this was a really lackluster product launch. Nothing was done to really create a competitive solution. I do love and use Google Apps, and the word processor and spreadsheet, while spartan, struck the right 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 work. I am disappointed. I think perhaps ThinkFree is closest to the mark in the web-based presentation tool category, but, even there, the first-time install process is pretty scarey for a consumer offering. I am sorry, but having acquired not one, but two web-based presentation tool players over the last year, this was a really lackluster product launch. Nothing was done to really create a competitive solution. I do love and use Google Apps, and the word processor and spreadsheet, while spartan, struck the right 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 work. I am disappointed. I think perhaps ThinkFree is closest to the mark in the web-based presentation tool category, but, even there, the first-time install process is pretty scarey for a consumer offering.

]]> By: Glenn http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/comment-page-1/#comment-1627687 Glenn Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:59:33 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/#comment-1627687 Did anyone other than Google call it something other than 'Google Docs' in the first place? Did anyone other than Google call it something other than ‘Google Docs’ in the first place?

]]> By: zegary http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/comment-page-1/#comment-1627596 zegary Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:09:45 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/#comment-1627596 step by step.. the power is google ! step by step.. the power is google !

]]> By: Konstantin http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/comment-page-1/#comment-1627466 Konstantin Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:12:25 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/google-completes-office-triple-play-with-presently/#comment-1627466 I give Adrew right - Microsoft made most innovations with its Office products, so that google has nothing else than to copy it (mostly interface & workflow). I personally don't like google presently (nor the whole gOffice), because of its lack of features. Yes, for a simply online presentation it may be OK, but not for a real office replacement in the enterprises. I give Adrew right – Microsoft made most innovations with its Office products, so that google has nothing else than to copy it (mostly interface & workflow). I personally don’t like google presently (nor the whole gOffice), because of its lack of features. Yes, for a simply online presentation it may be OK, but not for a real office replacement in the enterprises.

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