Google Apps Packs It Up: StarOffice On Microsoft Desktop Rules
The blogosphere is gunning for a Microsoft Office killer, from arch rival Google. The Googleplex rocket scientists though are short on gun powder.
Contrary to very conventional wisdom, a under the radar Google inclusion of Sun Microsystem’s (who needs) StarOffice in Google Pack is no direct shot at anything, other than Google Office itself, an Apps self-inflicted wound, actually.
OpenOffice is NOT the BIG loser in the Google-Sun Google Pack StarOffice relationship AND neither is Microsoft Office: Google Office, aka Google Apps (not) powered by Google Gears is dead on the (Microsoft) desktop.
Irony of compettive ironies: Who needs Microsoft Office? Who needs the Microsoft Desktop? StarOffice, Google do.
WHAT ARE THE SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FOR GOOGLE PACK?
You must have Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Vista.
SO, every Google Pack download with, or without, Sun StarOffice, is a MICROSOFT WIN!
ALSO, every Google Pack download with Sun StarOffice is a MICROSOFT OFFICE WIN! How so? Google acknowledges Google Apps desktop defeat by bundling Sun StarOffice in Google Pack, rather than desktop enabling its own Google Office.
In other words, Google Gears NOT to the Google Apps on the desktop rescue!
But two months ago, the half-baked, Google centric, collaborative development Gears test was annointed by the blogosphere as an indisputable “de facto tech” to lead a Web to desktop revolution going forward. Microsoft to be “flattened” by Google was another typical assessment, as “Gears ratchets the collar Google has around Microsoft’s throat.”
What collar? Where?
Contrary to popular perception, Google Gears is NOT enabling what “Internet surfers for years have (supposedly) yearned for,” Web applications that work offline.
Now, more than ever, Microsoft is (still) in the Office driver’s seat.
Sun StarOffice itself needs Microsoft Office, big time. The StarOffice value proposition is Microsoft Office dependent:
Now you can have a full-featured office productivity suite that’s compatible with Microsoft Office at just a slice of the cost.
If Google was as enthusiastic about gunning for Microsoft Office as the blogosphere is about gunning for a Microsoft Office killer, perhaps Google would have a shot.
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