Hmmm, let's see. Web-based email, word processor and now spreadsheet. What will they think of next?
Google Advances Software Challenge With Spreadsheet
June 6, 2006
Google Inc. plans today to release a Web-based spreadsheet application allowing users to collaborate online, in a further foray into Microsoft Corp.'s traditional turf.
The introduction of Google Spreadsheets follows Google's March purchase of a company offering a Web-based word processor named Writely. The two free Web-based Google services overlap with Microsoft's core Excel spreadsheet and Word word-processing software. Google's offerings highlight a nascent challenge to traditional software applications by a variety of Web-based services.
Microsoft General Manager Alan Yates said the Google offering is one of a field of similar products competitive with the Redmond, Wash., company's Office and Works suites of productivity applications. "There's nothing new here really," Mr. Yates said.
