Google “Office” News
Google has integrated writely.com with Google Spreadsheets. Now you visit one place (either http://writely.com or http://docs.google.com) to access your online documents and your online spreadsheets. Here’s more detail from TechCrunch.
The other news, more of a rumor, is that Google is working on offline support for Google Docs and Spreadsheets. The primary weakness of Google’s offerings (or Zoho’s Office offerings), when compared to Microsoft Office, is that they depend on a connection. No connection, no “app” and no access to the documents made with the app. If Google can provide offline access and offline storage (on the computers local disk) that would be synchronized to central once the connection is restored, their offerings would become a serious alternative to Microsoft Office for many more people. Read David Berlind’s analysis here. He quotes fellow ZDNet blogger Garett Rogers here.
