Google Acquires Quickoffice
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Google Acquires Quickoffice
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Re: Google Acquires Quickoffice
#2This is good news. The backend for Google Docs right now is a patchy patchwork mess that was originally based on OpenOffice (many many years ago). Replacing that backend with Quickoffice is going to make Google Docs a force to be reckoned with. Can't wait.
Re: Google Acquires Quickoffice
#3I once used Quickoffice on a Symbian S60 phone. I should say, it's capabilities were pretty impressive. Especially with the meager resources available on those old so-called smart phones.
I hope this helps Google build better native Office apps. Obviously, will also be a big addition to their Docs back-end. But it has always puzzled me, with the infinite resources Google has, it still has not been able to develop a seamless import of MS Office files. Is it really that hard?
Re: Google Acquires Quickoffice
#4This is good news. The backend for Google Docs right now is a patchy patchwork mess that was originally based on OpenOffice (many many years ago). Replacing that backend with Quickoffice is going to make Google Docs a force to be reckoned with. Can't wait.
> The backend for Google Docs right now is a patchy patchwork mess that was originally based on OpenOffice (many many years ago).
Any reason to believe this is still the case?
Re: Google Acquires Quickoffice
#5I once used Quickoffice on a Symbian S60 phone. I should say, it's capabilities were pretty impressive. Especially with the meager resources available on those old so-called smart phones. I hope this helps Google build better native Office apps. Obviously, will also be a big addition to their Docs back-end. But it has always puzzled me, with the infinite resources Google has, it still has not been able to develop a s…
Yeah, it's pretty hard. Microsoft's spec (for the OOXML formats) is over 6,000 pages long, and extremely hard to follow by all accounts. And no, that's not a 10-page specification followed by 5,990 pages of examples. The Office apps have incredibly complex functionality, and then factor in decades of revisions, upgrades, overlays, and general complexity creep.
Also bear in mind that while Google does have large (not infinite!) resources, they also have large responsibilities. Like anything, it comes down to economics: they could hire or repurpose 500 engineers to work on Office file formats, but it's not the optimal thing for them to do.
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#6A very good buy for Google. It's probably the best mobile Office app out there.
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#7This a Big kill for other Office apps in the Store.
Google's dominance and monopoly is killing smaller start-ups and Businesses which isn't good for our community.
They acquired Motorola Mobile, and it was a kill for other Android OEM's.
Re: Google Acquires Quickoffice
#8I once used Quickoffice on a Symbian S60 phone. I should say, it's capabilities were pretty impressive. Especially with the meager resources available on those old so-called smart phones. I hope this helps Google build better native Office apps. Obviously, will also be a big addition to their Docs back-end. But it has always puzzled me, with the infinite resources Google has, it still has not been able to develop a s…
Does Microsoft have seamless import to 365? I honestly think it's not just hard, it's impossible. There are always going to be formatting glitches that creep through.
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#9Is this the app that is built into Android that lets you open Word documents?
Re: Google Acquires Quickoffice
#10This a Big kill for other Office apps in the Store. Google's dominance and monopoly is killing smaller start-ups and Businesses which isn't good for our community. They acquired Motorola Mobile, and it was a kill for other Android OEM's.
like Samsung? They're killing it.
What smaller startups has Google killed with its monopoly? Facebook?