【國際新聞】Google rolls out rival to PowerPoint

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At CNNMoney.com

Google rolls out rival to PowerPoint

(Google 進一步槓上 PowerPoint)

In a challenge to Microsoft, business presentation tool will be included in search engine giant's free software bundle.

September 18 2007: 7:58 AM EDT

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) -- Google Inc. has expanded its online suite of office software to include a business presentation tool similar to Microsoft Corp.'s popular PowerPoint, adding the latest twist in a high-stakes (緊繃的) rivalry.

The Mountain View, Calif.-based company planned to unveil (揭開) the presentation software late Monday, about five months after Chief Executive Eric Schmidt announced Google (Charts, Fortune 500) would add the application to its software arsenal (軟體軍火庫).

The new program will be included in Google's free software bundle, called "Docs," which users must be online to employ. And the company will sell a souped-up (加強的) version to businesses, universities and government agencies for $50 a year per user.

As PowerPoint does, Google's presentation software enables users to create a series of slides with a mixture of text and graphics on each. PowerPoint is widely used in business meetings.

Google's software suite already includes word processing, spreadsheet (試算表) and calendar management programs. Microsoft (Charts, Fortune 500) has been reaping huge profits from similar applications for years.

Unlike Google's applications, Microsoft's programs are usually installed directly on the hard drives of computers.

Google executives have consistently depicted (描繪) the company's software applications as counterparts to Microsoft's products.

[MikiRei 10]

Hmmmm - this is very old news I think. (heard about it some few months ago)

Secondly, Mac OS already has something similar to PowerPoint that rules above Microsoft PowerPoint. The problem with PowerPoint is the default settings or the templates are EXTREMELY ugly so you need to do a lot of customizations. As for the MacOS version, the default setting's pretty enough so you don't have to spend extra time customising your business slides. It's pretty much ready to use.

As of late, Microsoft just don't "get it". They think MacOS have been successful because they've got nifty graphics and a lot of cool gadgets when really, it's more to do with the fact that it's easy to use. Vista's a great example showing just how clueless Microsoft is. By far the worst OS they've ever released. = =|||

Anyways, thanks for sharing but if you want tech news, CNN isn't the best place. ^.^|||

[evadne 11]

Hmmmm - this is very old news I think. (heard about it some few months ago)

Secondly, Mac OS already has something similar to PowerPoint that rules above Microsoft PowerPoint. The problem with PowerPoint is the default settings or the templates are EXTREMELY ugly so you need to do a lot of customizations. As for the MacOS version, the default setting's pretty enough so you don't have to spend extra time customising your business slides. It's pretty much ready to use.

As of late, Microsoft just don't "get it". They think MacOS have been successful because they've got nifty graphics and a lot of cool gadgets when really, it's more to do with the fact that it's easy to use. Vista's a great example showing just how clueless Microsoft is. By far the worst OS they've ever released. = =|||

Anyways, thanks for sharing but if you want tech news, CNN isn't the best place. ^.^|||

First of all, you shall say Mac OS X instead of Mac OS: the software that had a similitude of PowerPoint was Keynote, which was not included in the OS package.

"They think MacOS have been successful because they've got nifty graphics and a lot of cool gadgets when really, it's more to do with the fact that it's easy to use. Vista's a great example showing just how clueless Microsoft is." Citation needed!

Also, the appripriate subject for the worst MS Windows shall be the Me instead of Vista (Vista never embarasses me... = =)

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