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A few differences
Loverock obviously has his biases, and clearly so do you (and everyone else, I'm sure). I have not tried the Google entry, so I can't say if it is clunky or not, but the comparison you bring up isn't really valid, I don't believe.

The difference I see when comparing early Windows and Excel to the current Google offering is that the MS products were still relatively early in the GUI evolution, so many things were a bit clunky then. Excel was one of the first, and probably the first widely used, GUI spreadsheet, originally on the Mac.

Google should be able to learn from the available interfaces and avoid making many of the same mistakes the earlier programs did. That is assuming, of course, that it is clunky, which you didn't seem to differ with.
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Google guns for Microsoft  Loverock Davidson | 06/06/06
Menus, layout, clunky & scattered, wasnt that the way of Windows?  jonathan swift | 06/06/06
A few differences  brble | 06/06/06
Nope  Loverock Davidson | 06/06/06
I have to agree...to a point...  mdsmedia | 06/07/06
Mr. Swift is right.  xuniL_z | 06/07/06
the day after tomorrow...  Linux Geek | 06/06/06
Irony  ruprick_z | 06/06/06
and you..  hopefulcoder | 06/06/06
But he'd still be right...  John Zern | 06/06/06
So only 2 percent of the population  John Zern | 06/06/06
What are you talking about?  linux_for_me | 06/06/06
Just so you know....  John Zern | 06/07/06
Ahhhh  linux_for_me | 06/07/06
The infamous "they"  Chad_z | 06/07/06
You Puzzle me...  John Zern | 06/07/06
First...you baited the troll...  mdsmedia | 06/07/06
and YOU wouldn't be able to use either  mdsmedia | 06/07/06
2%?  TonyMcS | 06/07/06
Google's Core Business is not search.  JDavidLong | 06/06/06
In the face of failure  Anton Philidor | 06/06/06
What failed products?  linux_for_me | 06/06/06
Doing a spreadsheet on a PDA?  Anton Philidor | 06/06/06
Maybe you should go shopping.  linux_for_me | 06/07/06
When the PDA display is large enough...  Anton Philidor | 06/07/06
Maybe you should take your own advice...  the_seb | 07/19/06
chipped away is an overstatement.  xuniL_z | 06/07/06
There have been free alternatives to Office for years, and none have gained  judgesinel@... | 06/06/06
Then  Boot_Agnostic | 06/07/06
How large is your company?  Salman Pak | 06/07/06
OpenOffice.org  bblackmoor@... | 06/07/06
Wow!  wininpitt | 06/12/06
No clue  the_seb | 07/19/06
Google does it right  Chad_z | 06/07/06
Glad you're not running my business  wininpitt | 06/12/06
Classic Disruptive Technology  fdomke | 06/08/06

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