Can Google Docs Really Compete With Microsoft Office?

Well, they’re certainly trying. Google is offering to cover your company’s enterprise costs of using Google Docs until your existing enterprise agreement with Microsoft Office comes to an end. Will that work, though?

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In my experience, Google Docs has super-futuristic sharing and simultaneous use features, coupled with mid-1990’s style retro lack of functionality. I still can’t mail merge effectively, Google? Really?

The features for simple documents can’t be beat, but for anyone responsible for putting out a great looking document, they will have to go Microsoft Word. No questions about it. Google Docs CANNOT replace it, no matter how hard they say it can.

So what is an organization to do? Most likely, they’ll take the safe road, stick with what works, and pass on the Google Apps offer. That’s a real shame, but it’s one of Google’s own doing. They’re the ones who act like there’s no room for a fully-functioning web document maker. If they would get off the stick and truly put the pedal to the medal on a full-featured version of Google Docs on the web, that would be stellar. Crowd-source the extra features, and you get something phenomenal.

If Google would try, that is.

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