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superchunk on 26 October 2012
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wfz said:
superchunk said:
 

Ever use Google Docs? works perfectly fine for nearly every usage and can be downloaded/saved as any MS office format.


I wasn't going to respond to this thread, but now I feel forced to. I can't believe you just tried to compare google docs to MS office. I haven't used any other form of Google docs (if there are any) aside from the "Word" and "Excel" portion, and both of those are so rudimentary it's laughable. You can get away with only the most absolute basic form of work on those. You cannot use those to form any sort of point against MS Office unless you're a 4th grader doing a simple 2 page report....

bold and underlined important part you glossed over. Yes, GDocs isn't as robust as MSOffice counterparts. So for heavy business, marketing, etc users it won't work. However, for students, typical family, small business, casual business... basically the 80+% of the mass market non-business usage... GDocs is more than enough. I haven't touched MSOffice (I have full 2010version btw) in over a year outside of work. Even there the work I need it for could of easily been done in GDocs.

GDocs improves and adds new functionality every couple months and has a match for everytype of MSOffice platform. You also get unlimited storage when using GDocs file types and can always save as/download as a MSOffice or other variant.

I think you are greatly underestimating its capabilities or haven't used it since it first launched. I wrote A LOT of reports in getting my bachelors and masters ... and there was nothing I ever needed beyond what is available in GDocs. (I also had a 3.4 and 3.98 GPA respectively)