Google Docs Ditching Old Microsoft Export Formats(.doc, .xls, .ppt) on October 1
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Re: Google Docs Ditching Old Microsoft Export Formats(.doc, .xls, .ppt) on October 1
#2We need a real competitor to google docs, especially the spreadsheets.
Re: Google Docs Ditching Old Microsoft Export Formats(.doc, .xls, .ppt) on October 1
#3Given that there's no further development happening at Microsoft on the DOC, XLS, and PPT formats it's unclear to me why there's any advantage to Google, from a code maintenance standpoint, to removing these formats. If Google was having to invest labor in maintaining the export functionality I suppose I could understand, but I would think the export code is long-since debugged and working. What makes the cost of maintaining this old feature so high as to warrant its removal?
Re: Google Docs Ditching Old Microsoft Export Formats(.doc, .xls, .ppt) on October 1
#4We need a real competitor to google docs, especially the spreadsheets.
There is one: Excel (Live) or Excel (Desktop).
Try it if you haven't already by creating a Windows Live account and visiting http://skydrive.live.com and clicking the Create button at the top. You can do Word, OneNote, Excel and PowerPoint.
Re: Google Docs Ditching Old Microsoft Export Formats(.doc, .xls, .ppt) on October 1
#5Given that there's no further development happening at Microsoft on the DOC, XLS, and PPT formats it's unclear to me why there's any advantage to Google, from a code maintenance standpoint, to removing these formats. If Google was having to invest labor in maintaining the export functionality I suppose I could understand, but I would think the export code is long-since debugged and working. What makes the cost of mai…
Any changes in their own internal format would surely require maintenance of the legacy Microsoft formats, which would be quite burdensome I expect.
Re: Google Docs Ditching Old Microsoft Export Formats(.doc, .xls, .ppt) on October 1
#6We need a real competitor to google docs, especially the spreadsheets.
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Re: Google Docs Ditching Old Microsoft Export Formats(.doc, .xls, .ppt) on October 1
#7We need a real competitor to google docs, especially the spreadsheets.
especially the spreadsheets
Can you expand on that? (I work in this space.)
Re: Google Docs Ditching Old Microsoft Export Formats(.doc, .xls, .ppt) on October 1
#8Life would be soooooo much easier without Microsoft's closed formats. As nice as they are, they are a royal PITA when you are not using Windows. Sometimes you just need the text and images/other embedded media, not the fonts and other window dressing. Those can be added at view time if they are truly needed.
Re: Google Docs Ditching Old Microsoft Export Formats(.doc, .xls, .ppt) on October 1
#9.csv can be imported into Excel to make .xls.
.txt can be imported into Word to make .doc.
.html can be imported into either Excel or Word.
.ppt? No comment.
.csv, .txt and .html are much easier to work with across different operating systems.
Re: Google Docs Ditching Old Microsoft Export Formats(.doc, .xls, .ppt) on October 1
#10Did they announce this previously or are they giving just a 5 day notice(only 3 working days given the weekend)?
A lot of users are going to get irritated at having to change their workflow to have a copy of Office to re-save documents before uploading them. If you need to have a copy of Office around to save them in the new format, then some of the savings by using Google Apps is diminished.