Monday, April 7, 2008

Web office tools

Is this the future of all software products? I am referring to Google Docs and Zoho, which I learned about in Week 5 of the MLA CE course I am taking. I think it is the future depending on demand. The value of web office software is that it allows people to consolidate a lot of office functions including document publishing, making presentations, saving spreadsheets, using planners, and sharing files with a local community.

Is it the future of software? That depends on how comfortable people are using them. People will use what they are familiar with to make presentations and documents, but to share them, I think this is the future because of the value in finding every function in one place. I think some functions will be used constantly. I think some software applications will have a dimishig marginal return. People will have a ton of unused features on software applications like Google Docs and Zoho. They will find a feature they like and milk it depending on their needs. There is always a risk of having feature creep.

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