Cause you got a free*, Microsoft Office compatible document viewer/editor, with free* document sharing and collaboration before anyone else made a decent one.
And it was cross compatible with any computer that had a web browser.
It was game changing for small organizations, especially non profits.
Proud google hater for over 20 years now. 😁 I just don’t understand why they’re still relevant at all.
Cause you got a free*, Microsoft Office compatible document viewer/editor, with free* document sharing and collaboration before anyone else made a decent one.
And it was cross compatible with any computer that had a web browser.
It was game changing for small organizations, especially non profits.
The thing is, I was part of a non profit when they released their collaborative mode. It never made a meaningful change to the way we did things.
In a Skype call: person 1 “Hey this sentence is wrong, can you replace it with this? pastes in call chat” person 2 “okay sure”
You could make the argument that it’s clumsy, but I’ll make the argument that nobody is ever fully aware of the changes made to a collaborative doc.
Largely because thay are a defacto monopoly in too many areas.
Unless some viable competition emerges (or some anti-trust legislation breaks them up), they’re hard to avoid.