The Que proReader's gunning to replace bulky stacks of business papers with support for truVue PDF files, MS Office docs, e-mail, and Outlook calendar support.
Examples of this are things like moving from Office to Google Docs, moving from an offline CRM system like ACT to Salesforce.com, or moving from the desktop version of QuickBooks to QuickBooks Online.
The most convenient application for office workers is AcerCloud Docs.
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Office 365 offers much better features than Google Docs and is also compatible with the traditional Office suite, which is one of its main selling points.
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We share our documents, spreadsheets and data with them using hosted services like Google Docs, Office 365 and DropBox.
Also, with the popularity of hosted office systems like Office Live 365 and Google Docs and the collaboration providers like Box.net, DropBox and BaseCamp, fewer attachments with potential viruses are being sent around.
Or a small business owner who has come to rely on Google Docs as an alternative to Microsoft Office.
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Microsoft are already feeling the pressure from Google as Google Docs reduced the demand for the Office product suite, and that pressure is going to continue.
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At the risk of seeming Google-centric, I have to point out that it's even possible to manage basic documents and spreadsheets online -- once proprietary to bloated Microsoft Office products -- for free with Google Docs.
If google docs was a real competitor to MS Office I would consider it.
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And Google is doing that by offering its product for free: Google Docs takes aim directly at Microsoft's Office revenue machine.
Microsoft is, of course, interested in locking up .microsoft, but also has applied for .bing, .azure, .docs, .live, .office, .windows, and several others.
Both Microsoft's Office and OpenOffice.org nicely complement Google's free Google Docs service, which offers a convenient, and free, way to edit and share documents online.
Once you start using Google Docs and the related suites, you have no need for Office.
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The rest could make do with Google Docs, which, in any event, has interchange formats with Office and can pass files back and forth.
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This means enterprise users now have a three-way choice for office productivity: remote delivery of desktop applications, browser-based cloud solutions like Google Docs or the native, Microsoft-compatible LibreOffice suite that comes pre-installed.
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And while Google Docs online spreadsheet and word processing software is stripped down (when compared with Office), it does make it easier for workers to share a single online document and collaborate on it with colleagues--something that gets complicated fast when multiple copies of a Microsoft Word document are blasting around the office.
However now, thanks to Google Docs and its success with cloud based software, Microsoft recently announced that it was moving Office to the cloud.
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