Friday, May 17, 2013

Google Is Prepping A Sneak Attack On Microsoft Office

<p>Google's alternative to Microsoft Office, Google Apps, has always suffered from the fact that it offers a sort of "good enough" compatibility fine for most basic document and spreadsheet tasks, but not enough to match certain Office features.</p><p>Now Google is preparing to use technology from a recent acquisition, QuickOffice, to close that gap.</p><p>In recent weeks, Google sources have told me that Google has been internally testing, or "dogfooding," QuickOffice, which began life as a standalone productivity app that offers better compatibility with Office than Google's own Apps. Now, however, Google is testing QuickOffice as a cloud-based service in its own Chrome browser.</p><p>(Google already provides QuickOffice as part of its Google Apps subscription, specifically as an app for customers with Android tablets or iPads.)Why QuickOffice?</p><p><a href="http://readwrite.com/2013/05/17/google-is-prepping-a-sneak-attack-on-microsoft-office">Keep reading...</a></p>

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