Suzy, Drinker Of Coffee

Replace: Word Processor/With: World Domination?

Google's new online word processor sounds fairly nice, until you realise the development plan had even more holes than one of mine. As the article at The Register says,

“A measure of how mature the software is can also be gleaned from this blog post. Writely gained the feature "delete from trash" five weeks ago, a lower priority for the team than "new toolbar". When the ability to remove your own work from a hosted web service is considered less important than cosmetics, you have a fair idea of the software designers' values.”

… then again, is it another way for Google to takeover the world (available to US Residents Only?) After all, the G-Drive leak gave away some of their ideas…

“Store 100% of User Data ... With infinite storage, we can house all user files, including: emails, web history, pictures, bookmarks, etc and make it accessible from anywhere (any device, any platform, etc). We already have efforts in this direction in terms of GDrive, GDS, Lighthouse, but all of them face bandwidth and storage constraints today. (...) This theme will help us make the client less important (thin client, thick server model) which suits our strength vis-a-vis Microsoft and is also of great value to the user. As we move toward the 'Store 100%' reality, the online copy of your data will become your Golden Copy and your local-machine copy serves more like a cache."”

… In theory, it sounds fine, until you get a problem like with my phone line and then you are out of sync for months on end! But, if it all goes pear-shaped, they could always rename blogger to G-Spot…

posted by Suzy Scott @ 10:38