There has been some backlash against “Office 2.0″ systems of late. Greg Reinacker writes:
I just don’t see the incentive to have an online word processor or spreadsheet.
He lists some problems with the online spreadsheet apps and they are mostly valid.
To me though Google Spreadsheets doesn’t replace Microsoft Excel, it augments it. The other day I was at an internet cafe doing a spot of emailing and wanted to update a spreadsheet someone had emailed to me. It was in Excel but naturally the internet cafe computer I was on didn’t have Excel. Heck, all it had was a browser. No problem though. I imported the file into Google Spreadsheets, did my editing and exported it to be emailed back.
Online apps give me choice. When I am on a plane at 30,000 feet I load up Excel and bang away. When I am in Thailand stuck in a dodgy internet cafe I load up Google Spreadsheets and bang away.
Problems, options, solutions.
