I admit I was a tad on the cranky side this morning (3 hours sleep will do that to ol’ farts) and I almost bypassed this post in my morning go through of my feeds. However weak morning smile (still working on the coffee infusion) slowly turned into a big grin as I saw before my eyes a page view inducing hyperbole being reduced to the useless pile of personal opinion that tried to masquerade as knowledgeable facts by an excellently written comment.
The post I am referring to is the one on ReadWriteWeb today where they published a comment written by one of their readers; a person by the name of Karim, where he takes to task Bernard Lunn over his post on ReadWriteWeb called Why Google Apps is a Serious Threat to Microsoft Office. Ya I know .. another one of those posts meant for digg fodder and the such.
There is so much of Karim’s comment that just brought a smile to my face as I read through it. With a fine mix of sarcasm and facts Karim made valid points as to why this whole Google Doc will nuke Office is just as lame now as when it first started; and probably will be for more than a few years to come. I could quote some of the things Karim said but I would probably end up leeching the whole post; it is that good, but that said here is one quote in which Karim points out the value of free vs coughing up some dough:
The irony is you could go out right now, and get a whole Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OneNote) for $120 at Newegg, and you can install it on three different computers. And it works great and has tons more features than Google Docs. And it has no ads. Imagine that!
$120 / 3 computers = $40 per computer. Assuming you upgrade every 3 years, that’s about $1.12 per PC per month for the MS Office suite. Why would I spend THAT kind of crazy money for software I use day-in, day-out when I can bang my head “for free” against the lame “experimental” features of Google Docs?
Kudos to ReadWriteWeb for posting this and thanks for the great morning read over coffee.
Conversation Tags: Google Docs, Office
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