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Google Spreadsheet Adds Up
Google is spreadsheeting its Web 2.0 wings as it begins intial testing of its web based spreadsheet today.
Although this online application won't be as functional as Microsoft Excel, it does have some nice features.
You can save locally to XLS, CSV or HTML format, store your data online, upload existing spreadsheets, share documents and edit the file concurrently with other users. Nice.
The launch of this product is another salvo (others being GMail, Google Calendar etc.) in Google's attempt to lure users toward the web-oriented thin client model at Microsoft's expense.
Head on over to Google labs to sign up for the limited test and let us know what you think about it.
While the info about Google's web based spreadsheet is interesting, I think the use of the term "thin client" is a little optimistic. How a browser that runs in the slimmest of forms using a minimum of 25Mb can be called thin, I don't know.
While the Google app is certainly server centric, it ain't thin.
Things such as Citrix & Linux clients that deliver apps in just a few Mb or even 100's of K, are thin.
Posted by brush-head | June 9, 2006 5:35 PM
Well it's certainly not thin in the dumb terminal sense, fair enough.
But compare the memory footprint of Firefox running on a minimalist Linux install with Excel running on Vista Beta and I'm sure you'll agree that it's relatively thin!
Posted by Marc Delehanty | June 12, 2006 11:15 AM