Google (GOOG) officially unleashes online Microsoft (MSFT) PowerPoint competitor

Published: September 18, 2007, 8:23 am

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Filed under: Products and services, Launches, Competitive strategy, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT)It's been a long time coming, but Google, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GOOG) "Presentation" web-based presentation application is now available. As always, some are billing it as a "PowerPoint killer," which is Microsoft, Inc. (NASDAQ: MSFT)'s ubiquitous presentation software that is the lifeblood of business people all over the globe. Google's already unleashed its word processor and spreadsheet software to the masses (as well as email services, of course), so the presentation portion of the Google Apps package was eagerly awaited, if for nothing more than fodder for comparison to Microsoft's PowerPoint by the media.Much like the freely available OpenOffice software suite, Google Presentation can import and use Microsoft PowerPoint files, has built-in themes, text formatting and so forth. Google Presentation, of course, has built-in online collaboration and sharing, which is something many

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