the spreadsheet and writely application still have a long way to go especially when it comes to pasting things and with rich content.

And the simultaneous collaboration in excel ( I can edit this cell while you edit that cell at the same time) is awesome to behold, from a technical perspective – I can’t say I’ve actually used it that often.

and no charts.

but gmail and gcalendar have completely replaced Outlook for me.

the spreadsheet and writely application still have a long way to go especially when it comes to pasting things and with rich content.

And the simultaneous collaboration in excel ( I can edit this cell while you edit that cell at the same time) is awesome to behold, from a technical perspective – I can’t say I’ve actually used it that often.

and no charts.

but gmail and gcalendar have completely replaced Outlook for me.

1. Google Docs is usefull for “grocery list” style documents, but is very bad for larger documents that involve a lot of collaboration for 2 reasons:
a) When lots of people are editing a document at once, your curser keeps jumping to the top of the screen,
b) when people cut and paste content in from word docs/ web pages etc… the formatting goes bonkers and it takes hours to fix it,
c) It doesn’t export well into word & PDF
d) It’s really difficult to figure out how to use your normal email address (if you don’t have gmail), if it’s even possible, with docs, so it can be hard to convince people to try it.

2. Google spreadsheets can’t really even chart stuff, so it’s clearly not ready for business.

3. Page creater is geared towards “personal” style homepages (lots of pastels), and not at all suitable for building even a small business website on. It is too simplistic.

IMHO, gMail and gCalendar are worth the price of admission alone. Everything else… still needs a year or two of development (I WANTED to like them, but just could not find them practical). MS has at least that much time to come up with a game plan.

Throw in wiki functionality though (I’m looking at you Jotspot) and that might all change…

1. Google Docs is usefull for “grocery list” style documents, but is very bad for larger documents that involve a lot of collaboration for 2 reasons:
a) When lots of people are editing a document at once, your curser keeps jumping to the top of the screen,
b) when people cut and paste content in from word docs/ web pages etc… the formatting goes bonkers and it takes hours to fix it,
c) It doesn’t export well into word & PDF
d) It’s really difficult to figure out how to use your normal email address (if you don’t have gmail), if it’s even possible, with docs, so it can be hard to convince people to try it.

2. Google spreadsheets can’t really even chart stuff, so it’s clearly not ready for business.

3. Page creater is geared towards “personal” style homepages (lots of pastels), and not at all suitable for building even a small business website on. It is too simplistic.

IMHO, gMail and gCalendar are worth the price of admission alone. Everything else… still needs a year or two of development (I WANTED to like them, but just could not find them practical). MS has at least that much time to come up with a game plan.

Throw in wiki functionality though (I’m looking at you Jotspot) and that might all change…