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Google Presentations beta steals wind from Powerpoint sails

by Stan Beer
Wednesday, 19 September 2007
! As Google continues to deny that it is building a stable of online Microsoft Office competitors, the rhetoric continues to sound increasingly hollow with the launch of an online tool obviously designed to steal some of the wind from Microsoft's Powerpoint sails. Microsoft Live Search a dying dog while Google soars Gamers get car insurance discount Have you seen Uranus recently? Dog fleas jump higher than cat fleas (and other 2008 Ig Nobel Prize winners) Mac OS X web share cracks 8 percent Called Google Presentations, the new addition to the Google Docs family has been released and, at this stage, it is very much a simple version of PowerPoint although it does not have import-export compatibility. However, like the other members of the stable, Writely and Spreadsheet, Google Presentations is easy to use to build basic documents and it has it all over Microsoft's desktop product for collaborative efforts. Once again like its stable mates, performance is comparable to its desktop equivalent but the functionality still falls quite a way short of the full-blown PowerPoint product. Then again, unless you're a power user, how much functionality do need? Perhaps children doing school projects may be able to provide the answer. Google Presentations beta is available to anyone with a Google Docs account. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to post your comment! Tags See All Tags Google Internet Software as a Service (Saas) Stan Beer Get stories like this delivered daily - FREE - subscribe now