Google announced yesterday that Presently is now available as part of their Web Office offering (now re-named ‘Google Docs’, again. I guess ‘Google Docs & Spreadsheets & Presentations’ seemed a little too long).
It comes with several realization:
1) There is very little people with whom to share geeky excitement; on the blogosphere, and elsewhere. There seems […]

We announced a month ago that Google’s Presently was staring to go live, by enabling Gmail users to view ppt (Power Point) documents in the browser. This past months only a lucky few had the feature enabled.
Starting today, all Gmail users have the feature. Having tested it, I can now say that it is a […]

Google is starting to roll out a new feature for Gmail that allows the users to view attached Power Point presentations on-line. This is clearly part of ‘Presently’; Google’s take on PowerPoint. Last post was, unfortunately, a false alarm, as Ioannus pointed out in the comments.
At first glance, the feature might not impress much, and […]

Read/WriteWeb had a very interesting article of a new Web Office; ShareOffice, part of SalesForce’s AppExchange.
But the thing that caught my attention, after reading through the comments, was a screenshot of the Presentations tool. Its look and feel resembles Google Docs so much that it is hard to believe that it is not, in […]

The rumors about Presently, Google’s Power Point competitor, first disclosed by the Google Operating System Blog are now proven to be true.
This step from Google was obvious for many geeks since the release of docs & spreadsheets, and we were all just expecting this news.
What Google officially annouced is that they are close to releasing […]

I have not used Microsoft Office for six months now. I obviously am not a heavy Office Apps user. I use Linux at my office, and haven’t had the need for it; not even once.

But there is one thing I noticed: the fact that Power Point presentations do not work too well with OpenOffice (quite […]