Interesting how it seems like MS may have been right this time? They were able to milk Office for years, and despite seeming like it might, Google didn't eat their lunch.
People still email word docs around. It’s nuts. Maybe Exchange is smart enough to intercept them and say “hey use this online one instead”? At least for intra-org..
I think the ability to actually email the docs around is half the value proposition. Having to always refer back to the cloud versions is annoying as hell when you're not actually collaborating, just showing someone a thing.
Interesting how it seems like MS may have been right this time? They were able to milk Office for years, and despite seeming like it might, Google didn't eat their lunch.
People still email word docs around. It’s nuts. Maybe Exchange is smart enough to intercept them and say “hey use this online one instead”? At least for intra-org..
I think the ability to actually email the docs around is half the value proposition. Having to always refer back to the cloud versions is annoying as hell when you're not actually collaborating, just showing someone a thing.
I email Word docs around. It’s like low-tech version control - I know exactly what was in the doc, and can recover it easily.
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More like the Acquirer's dilemma.
Google Analytics - acquired 2004, renamed from Urchin Analytics
Google Docs - acquired 2004, renamed from Writely
Youtube - acquired 2005
Android - acquired, 2005 (Samsung have done more to advance the OS than Google themselves)