Truth be told, although I am hopeful about this product, since it has advanced rather quickly since the spreadsheet was introduced you have to be a little skeptical. Excel has been around forever and is a very complex well thought out piece of software, which as compared to this online application is extremely complex. Although Google does have the money, talent, and resources to create a comparable online, Excel alternative why would they bother? Offline appllications still have more features then gmail and the service has been around for quite a while. That's not to say that the new spreadsheet program wouldn't be useful, but a rival to Excel, I don't think so.
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