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Google Buys Online PowerPoint Competitor
Email, calendars, word processing, spreadsheets, databases, and now presentations: the Google Office is almost complete. Google just bought online presentation creator Tonic Systems.
We’ll soon be welcoming a new addition to the Google Docs & Spreadsheets family: presentations.
First of all, we want to welcome the team from Tonic Systems to Google. Tonic, which we’ve just acquired, is based in San Francisco and Melbourne, Australia. They have some great technology for presentation creation and document conversion, and it will be a great addition as we add presentation sharing and collaboration capabilities to Google Docs & Spreadsheets.
We’ve already freed those of you working in teams from the burdens of version control and email attachment overload when going back and forth on word processing and spreadsheets. It just made sense to add presentations to the mix; after all, when you create slides, you’re almost always going to share them.
Just last week, Google beat Microsoft’s bid for graphical advertising giant DoubleClick. Now, they’re getting ready to compete in a space dominated by the evil Microsoft PowerPoint.
Score one more against the fiction of paid software. Ballmer should start ordering chairs in advance.
(Via Michael Arrington.)
