Presentations: a quick addition to the Google Docs & Spreadsheets family

The rumors about the emergence of an online presentation service from Google that have long been on the web have finally been confirmed: first, Eric Schmidt, the company's chief executive officer at the Web 2.0 Expo conference, spoke about it, and then the corresponding entry appeared in the official blog . Thus, an existing Google Docs & Spreadsheets service will soon be complemented with presentations. He will give the opportunity to work together on presentations and publish them. As noted in the official blog, "when you create slides, you are almost always going to show them to someone." According to Schmidt, the new, now “complete office suite” from Google is not a direct threat to Microsoft, this product has completely different goals.

The new service will be based on the development of the recently purchased Google company Tonic Systems, which is creating a presentation service and converting documents to Java - Google continues the tradition of buying companies with the products they need, instead of creating them from scratch. Recall that the "Documents" are also the development of a third-party service Writely, absorbed by Google last spring.

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