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Google Gears up for offline docs, why not Gmail and Calendar? |
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 01 April 2008 |
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Page 2 of 2 Email and calendars, however, are a different breed. They
are actually creatures of the cloud. In the case of Gmail and Google
Calendar, if you're offline, you're flying blind and that's just not
good enough.
We all know that Google denies that it wishes to
compete with Microsoft in the office productivity out of one side of
its mouth, while continually upping the ante out of the other.
Naturally, appearing to hit Microsoft where it hurts is Word, Excel and
Powerpoint. However, the reality right now is that Google is doing the
most damage is in the Outlook area. How many Gmail and Google Calendar
users are there compared to Google Docs users?
To me, this suggests that the first first priority for Google is to
take Gmail and Google Calendar out of the cloud using Google Gears.
After that, Google can address the far less pressing issue of
documents. In the end most of us see where this is all heading.
Eventually, everything will be in the cloud and a subset of that will
be attached to our keyring. Right now, we need emails and calendars on
our keyrings as much as documents.
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