webware.com — Gmail users who get Microsoft PowerPoint attachments in their in-boxes can now view them without having PowerPoint installed on their machines. Google appears to have flipped the switch to allow this feature as of last night. We originally reported on this last month, although at that time it appeared that only a handful of accounts had access. Thi
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fip0Jun 12, 2007
good call.
jcardinalJun 12, 2007
I'm not sure that google is doing the right thing. More and more companies are getting away from the presentation phenom and having people explain their ideas instead of showing them onscreen with tacky animation.
spikexJun 12, 2007
"Conversion failed. Document is unreadable and possibly corrupted" says Google.I guess it's not totally "live" yet, that or it can't handle Office '07 stuff.
rekzaiJun 12, 2007
Can we have a demo ???For all of us that don't want to send a ppt to ourselves or don't have any friends that will send one to us.
avalontorJun 12, 2007
Obviously you don't work in a corporate environment. How many business do you think standardize on Office products? I bet it's a lot higher then YOU think.
evolvedantJun 13, 2007
Why should Google make an OS? They are a search and advertisement company with a few interesting web apps like google maps and spreadsheet. They have nothing to do with designing an operating system. And there are plenty of alternative Operating Systems out there already. Google could care less to compete on an OS, after all, websites are OS independent. I think the entire concept of Google making an OS is more the want of Google fanboys to see Microsoft get owned, and less of an intelligent and well thought out idea.
rstorm186Jun 13, 2007
so if i dont have powerpoint i can just email the files to myself at gmail and voila im golden
jeepnut24Jun 14, 2007
Link for the lazy...<a class="user" href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=048dc840-14e1-467d-8dca-19d2a8fd7485&displaylang=en">http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=048dc840-14e1-467d-8dca-19d2a8fd7485&displaylang=en</a>