Its new Writely and Spreadsheet web-delivered applications are designed to run in browser unlike the dominant Office suite from Microsoft which must be installed directly on a PC.
The service will allow multiple users to collaborate on documents from different locations. All documents will be served on Google servers, where they can be searched in the same way as you would do with the company’s web mail service. Many commentators that Google’s move into online productivity applications is a deliberate strike against Microsoft’s software on demand plans. Microsoft has it its own plans for a web-based offering that will be supported by advertising. But it is expected that the service will fall short of the functionality in Office and instead be based around Microsoft’s more basic Works package that is often shipped for free with PCs.
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