blogs.zdnet.com— While the last update was good, this will truly help Google Spreadsheets become more of a competitor in the spreadsheet business.
Jul 14, 2006View in Crawl 4
What about Google Maps? Ton's of sites and people use it all the time and its images! Surely they will increase the Spreadsheet performance, after all, it is only beta =P
Perhaps google isn't trying to beat excel, but instead to create an alternative to excel for light spreadsheet tasks for which sharing and online accessibility are more important than a huge feature set or integration with other programs.
I can't wait til everyone is only using web based applications and there's a major fiber break. Then everyone can realize just how utterly stupid the idea of "web based applications and data storage" is.
google spreadsheets is lame. if it was not a webapp, and in particular, not a google web app, this entire discussion would not even be taking place. it doesn't do anything a serious user would want. who wants to use this? i keep hearing responses about "light" users who want to share spreadsheets. okay, why is excel unable to edit basic spreadhseets as well as advanced ones? or openoffice? or gnumeric? as to sharing, people who want to do this in serious environments already have tools for this, they are called SERVERS. google spreadsheets will never amount to being much more than a toy because the web stack was never designed to provide advanced user applications with large data sets. go ahead and thuimb me down, but deep down you know this tool is a joke and if it was part of "office.live.msn.com" you would be joining me in saying this.
Well, it IS online. Its great for jumping on a computer (any computer, with internet access), making a spreadsheet, and being able to access that from anywhere that has a web browser and internet access. They arent trying to make Excel Online. For what it is, they did a very good job.
crilen007Jul 15, 2006
What about Google Maps? Ton's of sites and people use it all the time and its images! Surely they will increase the Spreadsheet performance, after all, it is only beta =P
emilesJul 15, 2006
Perhaps google isn't trying to beat excel, but instead to create an alternative to excel for light spreadsheet tasks for which sharing and online accessibility are more important than a huge feature set or integration with other programs.
fknightJul 15, 2006
I can't wait til everyone is only using web based applications and there's a major fiber break. Then everyone can realize just how utterly stupid the idea of "web based applications and data storage" is.
b7j0cJul 15, 2006
google spreadsheets is lame. if it was not a webapp, and in particular, not a google web app, this entire discussion would not even be taking place. it doesn't do anything a serious user would want. who wants to use this? i keep hearing responses about "light" users who want to share spreadsheets. okay, why is excel unable to edit basic spreadhseets as well as advanced ones? or openoffice? or gnumeric? as to sharing, people who want to do this in serious environments already have tools for this, they are called SERVERS. google spreadsheets will never amount to being much more than a toy because the web stack was never designed to provide advanced user applications with large data sets. go ahead and thuimb me down, but deep down you know this tool is a joke and if it was part of "office.live.msn.com" you would be joining me in saying this.
falcon1Jul 15, 2006
Well, it IS online. Its great for jumping on a computer (any computer, with internet access), making a spreadsheet, and being able to access that from anywhere that has a web browser and internet access. They arent trying to make Excel Online. For what it is, they did a very good job.
benc11Jul 15, 2006
This is cool technology that is here to stay and grow. If I was a boxed software provider/maker I would be worried.