Google Presently Will Soon Take On Microsoft PowerPoint

Google Apps has been presenting more and more of a threat to the Microsoft Office suite, and Microsoft is well aware although their recent actions are what I would consider lame.

Google is not wasting any time in providing one feature that Office provides, but Google Apps currently lacks. Presentations.

PowerPoint has long been the standard for creating slideshow presentations, but Google is directly targeting this software's market with a new web-based presentation application, known as Presently.

The Enquirer has reported today that "the coming-out party for the software is any day now," hinting at a public release in the very near future.

Following the recent news that Google had partnered with IT firm CapGemini to deliver Google Apps to enterprise clients, it is now almost certain that this presentation app will be included among the array of applications in the enterprise package.

According to speculation, Presently will likely be based on code that Google received through the acquisitions of Zenter and Tonic Systems earlier this year.

The release of this application will fill in a major gap that still left Google Apps lagging behind the features of MS Office. Whether or not it will actually make an impact on the sales of PowerPoint or the user base is still up in the air.

My guess is that many people, individuals and enterprise clients alike, will enjoy major benefits in the web-based Google Presently's ability to share presentations in an easy manner and access them from any PC. It will be developed to run on the web, which will increase collaboration and possibly even viral sharing of slideshows.

Although PowerPoint does have some web features and the ability to work within a browser, my experiences with it on the internet have been dismal.

With Microsoft's software offerings becoming more and more disappointing and under-developed upon release, I wouldn't be surprised at all if Google Apps started becoming more successful than Office.