Google Docs isn’t worth the gamble says Microsoft

Microsoft is taking aim at Google Docs. Jake Zborowski, Microsoft’s senior product manager for Office, actually published an anti-Docs blog post, one homes in on document fidelity.

If it took me a little while to get Michael Atalla, the director of product marketing for Office 365, to actually say “Google” in my chat with him about Microsoft’s productivity tools earlier this week, Zborowski doesn’t beat around the bush for even a second. “Converting Office files into Google Apps is a gamble,” he writes. “Why take the gamble on converting your Office files to Google Docs when you can use Microsoft Office and the Microsoft Office Web Apps to create, share and edit your Office files with your content intact?”

That, Microsoft says, is true on the web, but also on the tablet, where Google’s Quickoffice usually does a pretty good job at converting documents (though not in Microsoft’s example, of course).

So what about the new Chrome document viewer? Also too much of a gamble for Zborowski: “The last gamble with Google is how the company helps you view Microsoft Office documents using their file viewers. Even this is a gamble that may be too risky to take.”

Why gamble with your time and Office content? When you build and share compelling, accurate, and impactful information, make sure you get what you bargained for, he cocluded.

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