Google versus Microsoft

Posted by Kenneth Ronkowitz on



Google’s new Notebook application has been compared by some to Microsoft's OneNote for use on the web. I never found OneNote useful, so I stopped using it. Should I use Notebook?

It lets you take text from a webpage and create an electronic notebook. Then you can annotate entries by editing them or adding an additional note below the entry. It includes a link back to your text source.

You can create sections and you can rearrange them on the screen by simply drag/drop (I assume it uses AJAX.) and add headings. It's all printable. If you make your notebook "public" then it can be searched for with other public notebooks.

Google takes another shot at Microsoft by releasing a Web-based spreadsheet program that may at some point compete with Excel. Well, "compete" my be the wrong word - does it compete if Google's is free?

Plus, like Notebook, it's an online application so it's easy to edit and share lists and data online. Uncleverly called Google Spreadsheets, the app can read and create files in the format used by Excel.

Back in February I wrote here about the free online, collaborative word processor called Writely which was purchased by Google a month later.

What's next from Google Labs? Will they create their own versions of PowerPoint and Access?

And you thought Google was all about search - maybe it's search & destroy.

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