I'm a cloud-computing, Chrome OS fanboy for the most part. But today was one of of those days I was glad to have old-school Windows and Mac PCs lying around my home office.
I'm no power user, but Google Docs suits me for word processing hours each a day while Google Sheets likewise is fine for my spreadsheets. However, when it comes to importing and editing files from the incumbent power, Microsoft Office, Google is just not meeting even my low-end needs.
Google handles such documents, in either the older .doc and .xls formats and the newer .docs and .xlsx formats, in a variety of ways. With browsers in general, Gmail offers two choices besides downloading an attached document. First is a viewer that provides a noninteractive glimpse of the document's contents. Second is the option to open it as a Google document.
On Chrome OS, there's a third option, the QuickOffice software Google acquired to let its browser-based operating system handle files. That software, written atop Google's Native Client programming foundation, lets you view Office files today. And in coming weeks, coming in the next three monthsQuickOffice will let you edit Word and Excel documents, too, according to Sundar Pichai, leader of Chrome (and ... [Read more]
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