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Google Spreadsheet is, if nothing else, a very neat experiment. The UI is very slick. Some of the collaboration features are neat. But you have to wonder why Google is doing this. Do they really think they can compete with a desktop office suite? Office is not dying and it will never be replaced by something web-based anytime soon. This is true for a number of reasons: enterprises, the key drivers of this market, aren't going to go for it; it requires a LOT of trust for sensitive, confidential stuff; for publicly traded companies, there's the compliance and regulatory issues; and perhaps most important, we don't (yet) have truly ubiquitous access. Jeff discussed whether Google Spreadsheet will erode marketshare for the casual Excel user, and mentions that "[t]he perspective that gets lost in these debates is that Microsoft itself appears to be well along the way to delivering componentized Office (Live) that satisfies the needs of casual and advanced users alike." I disagree with the idea...
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