Google Spreadsheet

Google Spreadsheet
Google Spreadsheet

About three months ago, Google acquired Writely, the web word processor. A month later, Google Calendar was available, even with its Calendar API. It's now one step further, with the new Google Spreadsheet service.

Google announced it on it's official blog : It's nice to share, they say. You can take the Google Spreadsheet Tour to see what it looks like. If you're lucky, you can even try Google Spreadsheet, but it has limited access, on a "first-come, first-served" basis. If not, just read the Google Spreadsheet early reviews.

As Google seems to invade Micro$oft office territory, you could think that some people become really nervous : Alan Yates, by example (Microsoft's general manager for information worker business strategy). But he say's that's not the case, that it's not something new. Even more, he was asking "What's taking Google so long?".

Only time will tell, but things are becoming really interesting in that field.