Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat » ooxml Archives – Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat http://blog.fosketts.net Understanding the accumulation of data Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:40:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Google Revs Apps http://blog.fosketts.net/2007/09/18/google-revs-apps/ http://blog.fosketts.net/2007/09/18/google-revs-apps/#comments Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:08:48 +0000 Stephen http://blog.fosketts.net/2007/09/18/google-revs-apps/ If you’re a Google user like I am (in my off-time), you’ll be happy to learn that Google finally made two long-awaited changes today. First up is the addition of presentations to the Google Docs suite. Although Docs still lags well behind the full-featured office suites (especially Microsoft’s unexpectedly great PowerPoint 2007), this addition does add much to Google’s ammunition in pushing their online office suite. One funny thing, though, is that none of Google’s office apps yet support the XML-based OOXML formats pushed by Apple (iWork), Microsoft (Office 2007), and Novell (OpenOffice). In fact, Google pushes that last – you’d think they’d use the format, too. In other news, a cryptic post shows that Google’s excellent Reader app is finally out of the Lab…

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